> lack of a proper, cross platform, package manager: I know the history, I know that C/C++ are basically embedded in the system and they use the system package

> lack of a proper, cross platform, package manager: I know the history, I know that C/C++ are basically embedded in the system and they use the system package manager, I think the problem is deeper than that and that the problem could be that C++ does not have a standard ABI. It is compiler-specific. Therefore, having a system package manager does not work (as it does for C). I compile my personal C++ codebase with four different compilers and different debug settings. The only way to manage that is to have a monorepo with all my dependencies checked in .