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The real, everpresent and probably future nail in the coffin of C++ is the lack of a standard apckage manager and build system. The rest is just what happened to be picked up by social/news as it is easier and flashier to talk about.

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Conan and cmake problem solved

Ah, we are from the same tribes! Let's go talk to the the bazel and to the vcpkg tribes. But what about the fact that cmake isn't a build system, also conan 2.0 was a bit rough the last I saw.. maybe thats why clion/intellij dropped support for it out of the box and now uses vcpkg?

I've been contributing some C++ packages to xrepo, which personally imo is the best of all worlds. c:

There is a Bazel tribe? I've heard it mentioned a couple of time but I have yet to encounter a C++ project I need to build which supports Bazel but not CMake. In fact, just _any_ Bazel support seems to me quite rare. Am I living in a bubble?

As for vcpkg - yeah, that's popular, for sure.

Daisy Hollman says she has "drunk the Bazel kool-aid" and is a big proponent of its usage outside Google.

Bazel is a project created by Google, and Hollman works for Google. So - perhaps the Bazel tribe is people working at Google? There _are_ quite a few of those....

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