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bigfatkittenyesterday at 7:16 PM1 replyview on HN

You also won’t typically find C/C++ developers blinding yolo’ing the latest version of a dependency from the Internet into their CI/CD pipeline.

They’ll stick with a stable version that has the features they need until they have a good reason to move. That version will be one they’ve decided to ship themselves, or it’ll be provided by someone like Debian or Red Hat.


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pjmlpyesterday at 8:28 PM

Unless of course they are using vcpkg, conan or FetchContent.

Most corporations are already using the likes of Nexus or JFrog Artifactory, regardless of the programming language.