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I think that this article is missing the most obvious and perhaps most used package manager for C and C++ projects: Linux distro’s package repositories.
It should be stressed that package managers are a requirement for Windows and, to a far lesser degree, macOS. On any Linux distro, you’d just apt install <dependency>-dev and you’d be mostly set. It’s mainly Windows development that draws this need to install packages to be able to develop anything.
I think that this article is missing the most obvious and perhaps most used package manager for C and C++ projects: Linux distro’s package repositories.
It should be stressed that package managers are a requirement for Windows and, to a far lesser degree, macOS. On any Linux distro, you’d just
apt install <dependency>-devand you’d be mostly set. It’s mainly Windows development that draws this need to install packages to be able to develop anything.