In my experience, there's no such thing as cpp ecosystem... What there are, are many little ecosystems that revolve around various subsets of the giant language

In my experience, there's no such thing as cpp ecosystem... What there are, are many little ecosystems that revolve around various subsets of the giant language called C++. And they tend to range from quite fun to use to living nightmares/walking zombies... For eg, if you just stick to Qt/C++/QML ecosystem for making GUI/Embedded apps, the libraries are quite good, the developer tooling is quite nice, you never even leave your IDE. Infact it is nicer than what Rust has to offer for GUI today. However, if you want to make webapps/services with C++, my experience has been death by thousand cuts. I have heard similar stories from developers coming from Windows/VC++. For a lot of them, cross platform portability isn't a thing to worry about. A lot of them just store compiled dlls and header files of their dependencies in their repos etc...