I'm looking for recs on C/C++ package managers, especially Conan vs. vcpkg! TL;DR: in a vacuum, vcpkg looks nice, but it's made by Microsoft, and the repository has the "a user you've blocked..." warning (i.e., it has Claude contributions). My main question: is vcpkg nice enough/is the behavior by its maintainers good enough that people would recommend it over Conan? Some of the details I've heard about the two: I've heard people mention that vcpkg has a higher learning curve but ultimately "just works", and that Conan can be a bit more fiddly. I've also noticed that many of the comparisons I've seen are pre-Conan 2, whereas now version 2 seems pretty stable. For anti-monopoly reasons, I like that Conan doesn't have one centralized list of packages, but I also hear that can make it harder to have reproducible builds. #C #CLang #Cpp #CProgramming #CMake #Dev #Programming