[disgruntledphd2]

It's all fine until you start needing multiple language package managers, each with their own C/C++ dependencies, and then it gets a lot trickier.

I mean, I know how to handle it, but it's pretty depressing that I need to do it, when in the past one could rely on relatively recent versions of everything existing with a system package manager.

I always need C/C++/Java dependencies in DS, so maybe I just feel the pain points more.

[hctaw]

That's more an indictment of the sorry state of C/C++ dependencies and linkage paradigms (shared libs are an antipattern like 90% of the time, imho). If C/C++ had a standard package manager then it would be much more trivial to mix and match with other languages.

Modern package management in a nutshell is "don't do what we do in C because we learned from those mistakes."

[disgruntledphd2]

Sure, but I'm a data scientist. I need C/C++ dependencies all the time. I don't have the luxury of ignoring this problem. I really wish I did though :(