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It’s not unusual to do it in C or C++, just because the dependency management story sucks so bad (there’s a lot more options than there used to be, but still no one defacto standard like pip or cargo).


There's this concept of a shared library, you should check it out.


How does compiling your dependency differently help with dependency management?


That's the neat part: you don't

You do not compile your dependencies


Even if they don't distribute binaries for your target?


So ... no dependency management is the best way to do dependency management? Just download the .so files from somewhere?

Sounds awesome!




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