I think JS gets shit on the most because its both the largest, most popular, visible and relatable. Imagine trying this same exercise with a C++ library you found
>The cmake build is doesn't work without -GNinja (you do have ninja installed, right?)
>No actually use Bazel/Buck/Pants/Meson
>Oh you installed $DEP, but not the right $DEP with $DEP-X support
>pkg-config can't find $DEP-X
>Pre-build $DEP-X was built with GCC N, and you have GCC N-1, try building from source
>GOTO 1 for DEP-X
I'm embellishing here, but I feel like I always do some version of this song and dance when trying to build a C++ project. And then after all that is done you somehow still end up with linker errors in your final project.
>The cmake build is doesn't work without -GNinja (you do have ninja installed, right?)
>No actually use Bazel/Buck/Pants/Meson
>Oh you installed $DEP, but not the right $DEP with $DEP-X support
>pkg-config can't find $DEP-X
>Pre-build $DEP-X was built with GCC N, and you have GCC N-1, try building from source
>GOTO 1 for DEP-X
I'm embellishing here, but I feel like I always do some version of this song and dance when trying to build a C++ project. And then after all that is done you somehow still end up with linker errors in your final project.