[fivea]

> One of my favorite features particular to C++ is that you can configure dependencies to use local libraries, vcpkg, or Conan specifically.

This was the only substantiated claim you made in your whole post, but it refers to stuff that most standard build systems already do, specially cmake.

In fact, it's even trivial to hack together a plain old Makefile to add a target that invokes vcpkg or conan to fill in dependencies.

What exactly do you believe makes xmake worth the trouble?