> "Unfortunately, there is not a single place to go to look for C++ Libraries."
I don't understand this. I code in C++ everyday at the moment (that's a story for another day) so I know the ecosystem, at least for scientific computing, pretty well. With all the changes and improvements being introduced, what's stopping a package manager from being added? The bane of my existence at the moment is the fact that I have this HUGE Boost dependency in my code, even if I'm only using a few packages. I know the Boost project has now finally migrated to Github and provides individual repositories for libraries. It just startles me that there isn't a single, consolidated package manager to have rolled out of the millions of work-hours that have gone into C++ projects.
It's possibly the single biggest criticism of the language that I felt wasn't tackled at all. There is a complete lack of consensus. In trying to accommodate everything and anything, C++ has in my experience overshot the mark.
I don't understand this. I code in C++ everyday at the moment (that's a story for another day) so I know the ecosystem, at least for scientific computing, pretty well. With all the changes and improvements being introduced, what's stopping a package manager from being added? The bane of my existence at the moment is the fact that I have this HUGE Boost dependency in my code, even if I'm only using a few packages. I know the Boost project has now finally migrated to Github and provides individual repositories for libraries. It just startles me that there isn't a single, consolidated package manager to have rolled out of the millions of work-hours that have gone into C++ projects.
It's possibly the single biggest criticism of the language that I felt wasn't tackled at all. There is a complete lack of consensus. In trying to accommodate everything and anything, C++ has in my experience overshot the mark.