Maven and Cradle might be terrible, but C and C++ have fucking nothing in terms of dependency management. Even C# has something that few people use, but it has something. C and C++ are such a shit show to build. It's so bad they had to invent languages to build them and they regularly fuck up (CMake, make, bison, scons, meson, ...).

Pull a C or C++ project on a distro or environment and try to build it and you have to dive in the abyss of undeclared dependencies. And good fucking luck with glibc and glib dependencies. If the dev doesn't know which version they were actually using, it's up to you to find out. Fun for the entire family!

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[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

To be fair, C predates dependency hell. It was either there or it wasn't. C++ has less of an excuse, but it was just object oriented concepts taped to C so it's no surprise it was also missing dependency management.

Now with cmake, gnu-make, meson, gradel, and the world of metabuild systems that wrap those, nothing will change. It it does, it might as well kick start world war 3.

[–] dbx12@programming.dev 23 points 5 hours ago

come develop Golang , its good here.

... and other ridiculous cope statements to laugh about

I am in this post and I don't like it.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

Thank God it's not just me

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take the autotools over Gradle, that's how much it sucks.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Haha this.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There's Gradle to crave joke to make here, but deploy keeps failing during dependency checks for humor.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Me with gh's CI

[–] nick@midwest.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Same