> like in every other programming language, and be able to develop my project with it. You're confusing application development with system development. C and

> like in every other programming language, and be able to develop my project with it. You're confusing application development with system development. C and C++ are very much aimed at the latter. By the time you're in a situation where you need to mess with a specific version of a library that is included in your host system, something has fundamentally gone wrong at an earlier point. C and C++ don't provide an application-level package manager, and I think this is pretty much intentional. Both languages "want" to build a system, not an application. Case in point: the C standard library is largely specified in POSIX, right next to system tools - not ISO C.