For development you don't want to use the distros tools anyways. The distro packages are there primarily to build the other packages, they also provide the basi

For development you don't want to use the distros tools anyways. The distro packages are there primarily to build the other packages, they also provide the basics of a development environment suitable for small tasks and testing. For more serious development you want a level of control over your tooling that distro packages just can't provide (NixOS being the only exception I know about). This is why most languages have their own compiler/runtime distributions and module/package system.