I have spent the better half of 10 years navigating around C++'s deplorable dependency management story with a slurry of Docker and apt, which had better not be part of everyone's story about how C is just fine. I've now been moving our team to Conan, which is also a complete shitshow for the reasons outlined in the article: there is still an imaginary line where Conan lets go and defers to "system" dependencies, with a completely half-assed and non-functional system for communicating and resolving those dependencies which doesn't work at all once you need to cross compile.
