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go code to compile c/c++ code? What is the reason for this complexity? What does this project solve that existing package managers do not? (eg compared to vcpkg, spack or hunter)

After a week of fighting with vcpkg, i really doubt that this project is worth anyone's time.

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Go is surprisingly good in this role. Super easy cross compilation, good platform support, and easy distribution means that it's very easy to get the tool where you need it. For a lot of file munging, Go is serviceable.

To my understanding, the problem is how to easily and consistently build several versions of software stacks(libraries/executables) with different compilers(primarily MSVC/icc/gcc/clang) on windows/linux/osx for windows/linux/osx/android.

I do not see how go (or any other tool) is more or less suited to solving this problem and given the variety of existing tools (and their failure to do it), makes me suspect that this project is merely an alpha stage effort in solving this problem and mostly an exercise in go.

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