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by hypeatei 186 days ago
> whereas I am sure a C/C++ large project of a similar size wouldn't run out of memory

This is a common issue on large C++ projects for users with limited resources. You typically have to tinker with build settings and use a different linker etc.. to get the project building without OOMing.

> A lot of the tooling reminds me of NPM

My feeling is that you'd have the same criticism about a lot of other modern ecosystems because they allow you to pull dependencies easily. With things like vcpkg, that's also possible in C++ but even without it: nothing stops the same behavior of importing "random" code from the internet.
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FieryMechanic 186 days ago
A lot of the modern tooling feels like a rube goldberg machine when it goes wrong. If you are forced (like I am) because of byzantine corporate rules to use older version of said tools, it is extremely painful. Don't get me started on stuff like babel, jest, ts-jest and all that gubbings. AI been a godsend because I can ask Claude what I want to do.

I use vendor directory in my C++ project and and git submodules and I've got a build that works cross platform. The biggest issue I ran into was MinGW and GCC implement the FileSystem library differently (I don't know why). It wasn't too difficult to fix.

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