> Does this ultimately boil down to "go install" (or whatever the Rust equivalent is) is easier to deal with than "./configure; make"? Well, yeah. For once, ".

> Does this ultimately boil down to "go install" (or whatever the Rust equivalent is) is easier to deal with than "./configure; make"? Well, yeah. For once, "./configure; make" doesn't work on Windows. So you need CMake, or SCons, or Boost Jam, or any other cross platform build system. Then you have different ways of getting dependent libraries, like zlib. In short, the C/C++ cross platform "packaging" is just a mess.