[The_rationalist]

Has anybody tried to use Gradle as a C++ package manager? It seems to be officially supported and gradle is a powerful and decent tool, from experience. I feel like it's a cultural thing that it doesn't come more often than bazel.

https://docs.gradle.org/current/samples/sample_building_cpp_...

[kitd]

I have, a while ago, so things may have moved on.

It was fun to use to start off with, but I quickly got fed up with Groovy APIs with no intellisense and little documentation.

I certainly helps understanding the Gradle (and even Maven) world first. If you come from that world already, it'll be easy.

edit: I see you can use Kotlin now. That makes it much more interesting IMO.

[The_rationalist]

Yup kotlin script has intellisense, the upcoming 6.8 release will make autocomplete much faster (I have to admit it was very slow until recently)