[annowiki]

When I started playing with C/C++ the first thing I complained about was how difficult package management was. Conan is not as simple as cargo or pip. It's often simpler to find a header only library and plop it into your repo, but you still have to modify build configurations to include it.

This is the first time I thought to myself "Maybe that's actually a good thing."

[fluoridation]

When you're prototyping, a package manager can be really convenient, because it lets you try things out really quickly without investing a lot of time. But once you have most things in place you really just want something that will remain stable for a long time.