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by bjt 4616 days ago
> To be fair, the import-compiled-transitive-dependencies-as-binaries pattern that Maven likes to employ is probably less easily adapted to natively compiled languages like C/C++ than it is to managed runtime languages (Java/Erlang) or scripting languages (Ruby/Python).

The "scripting languages" don't even have this as easy as it might seem. Half the dependencies in my Python projects these days have important bits written in C (e.g. psycopg2, gevent).