Comment by lairv

I just spent 3 days to statically link a third party dependency to my C++ project, in a way that works with linux/windows/macos. The package wasn't available on conan/vcpkg, it was just a github repo with a weird combination of Makefile/cmake file. While I'm far from a cmake/cpp expert, this is a non-issue with most modern languages: you just pip install, cargo add, npm install, go get etc. You can read front-to-cover books about every details of C++ semantics and it'll still be a PITA to work on real world projects