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Yeah, I know, I don't want to use docker. The problem is that C and C++ offer no real option in this camp. I'd be happy with anything that resolves and download dependencies, builds them locally (using CMake?) and adds the correct headers and library dir configurations to my project. But I could not find anything that really works

True, C/C++ have it a bit more complex. But is it really an unsolvable problem? One would think that with the level of investment in C/C++ someone would be able to create something all the hipster languages have done in the last 20 years.

I guess Gentoo's emerge would be the closest thing to a "good" C/C++ package manager we have today, which I find a bit funny :)

C++ standard committee is working on an intermediate step in the right direction: module support.

IMO, since the trend today seems to be building static binaries, I'd like to see an opinionated tool that made that use case stupid simple.