Someone else has mentioned vcpkg. Another project that gets you closer to Rust or Go in this respect is conan, which I really enjoy using. It's still not as pol

Someone else has mentioned vcpkg. Another project that gets you closer to Rust or Go in this respect is conan, which I really enjoy using. It's still not as polished as other package managers (e.g. maven), but for a lot of very useful libraries, on a reasonable platform (recent OS, recent compiler) and for most important libraries (FFmpeg, boost, abseil, range-v3, the list goes on...) you can just add a single line to your conanfile with the version you want and off you go. And remember -- a lot of the complexity comes from historical reasons AND also allow you to, e.g. run on, say an Atmel 328p or other microcontroller. So the complexity is partly from having such a wide target area.