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This keeps being repeated and repeated and it is just a myth.

Even without a package manager adding dependencies manually is quite easy for the vast majority of popular libraries. With a manager it is the same as cargo.

I assume you are talking about old, broken, unsupported, closed source, binary only libraries, but then it is not a meaningful comparison.

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Its really not, even with current libraries, not when you come from languages that have a modern packaging system.

This is exemplary of why Rust will win out in the end. The c++ crowd can't acknowledge its shortcomings and fix them in a meaningful way

It is the same for cargo, npm, pip, C++ managers and other languages.

Usually a single line does it in all of them, either in the shell or in a config file.

I call FUD.

It was rarely a single line with C++ when I used it over the last year, moving to cargo it is literally always a single line and I was done.

Rust is going to make the C++ community actually look in the mirror for the first time in who knows how long.

So that project didn't use a package manager and you extrapolate that to an entire ecosystem.

Its sooo many projects, if the argument is that c++ has all these libraries, thats mute, but again the c++ devs just think everything is fine!

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