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Why hasn't gradle been adopted for C/C++ projects? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know little about gradle and have only just started exploring it, so this is just a question out of curiosity.

It's supposedly a language agnostic dependency manager and builder, yet it seems to have only found its niche in Java. C/C++ projects could definitely do with dependency resolution...

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[–] paperplane 4 points 5 days ago

I know a bunch of larger C++ apps that use vcpkg for cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux) builds of their dependencies and it seems to work pretty well