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 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Oh you mean Android Studio automagically "updating" your versions so that your build breaks and you spent 3 hours figuring out what just happened without you even touching anything?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

side note, it's badass to see a gpl3 licensed game on steam, and a paid one at that!

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 11 months ago

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