Sep 25, 2020
on one hand, C and C++ dependency management is terrible because nothing just works. you can’t just run a single command to grab all the stuff you need; because each operating system has its own system for dealing with C dependencies. On the other hand, C dependency management is really flexible and doesn’t mandate hardly anything, and it has a simplicity and transparency which I really appreciate. So while npm “just works” far more often than C, npm feels icky while C doesn’t.
