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1718627440 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A critique of package managers

C and C++ do have package managers. It's just that these languages evolved for OS implementation and also that these package managers are old and stable so they have support for a lot of languages, so that you probably know them as OS package managers.

cozzyd 10 months ago [–]

Which is the correct thing to do as things written in language X can depend on things written in language Y.

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