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by JohnFen 1122 days ago
This actually made me laugh out loud. Yes, if your problem with C is that it doesn't need a package management mechanism like some other languages, then C is clearly not for you. But C is very far from the only language like this.

It's a bit like criticizing a fish for having no legs.
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IshKebab 1122 days ago
> if your problem with C is that it doesn't need a package management mechanism like some other languages

The problem isn't that it doesn't need one, it's that it doesn't have one. I have no idea why you would think that it doesn't need one.

Well there is vcpkg now anyway so it finally does have one.

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JohnFen 1122 days ago
I sense that we have some sort of real miscommunication going on here, because the only response I can think of to

> I have no idea why you would think that it doesn't need one.

Is that I have no idea why anyone would think that it does need one.

Perhaps the disconnect is that you are wishing C addresses different use cases than it addresses? That you wish it were a different language? If so, that's fine. Use a more appropriate language for your task. I just find it odd if the criticism of C is that it isn't a different kind of language.

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IshKebab 1121 days ago
> Is that I have no idea why anyone would think that it does need one.

For the same reason any language needs one. What is it about C that you think excludes it from the basic requirement of "using third party libraries"?

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