That statment was qualified by: > While I'm far from a cmake/cpp expert, this is a non-issue with most modern languages: you just pip install, cargo add, npm i

That statment was qualified by: > While I'm far from a cmake/cpp expert, this is a non-issue with most modern languages: you just pip install, cargo add, npm install, go get etc. Which I also find fundamentally wrong because most real world projects have a C/C++ dependency which needs to be built and is built from one of those languages build systems by calling into cmake / autotools + make. Just because you called apt-get or any other way to pull dependencies doesn't remove the fact that they need to be built and likely involve a C compiler.