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I fully agree that this problem also exists in C/C++. I was comparing it to the likes of Go or Rust.

• shepherdjerred 2y ago
  Oh, sure. Go and Rust both have great dependency management.
  • kaba0 2y ago
    I would like to add though that there is a big difference between a language-specific build tool that pretty much can’t build anything else and will bleed out at the first sight of another language in the project, and something like Gradle which is a fully generic build system capable of, say, a whole android build. Of course a specialist will be “more elegant” at solving it’s intended problem, but that’s often not all we need.
    • Hendrikto 2y ago
      I much prefer composing a handful of simple and elegant tools, rather than working with a single ones that tries to do everything for everyone. The latter invariably turns into a mess.