> Taking the option of "I'll just build everything myself" then is not really a viable process in today's world
I want it to be practical to build software which only depends on a small number of trusted individuals or organizations beyond the OS and compiler. C++ manages it better than newer languages with built in package managers, and dependencies rarely depend on transitive dependencies, though it comes at the cost of adding dependencies (especially transitive dependencies) being extremely difficult (I hear Meson subprojects help, and CMake has their own worse version I didn't try).
I want it to be practical to build software which only depends on a small number of trusted individuals or organizations beyond the OS and compiler. C++ manages it better than newer languages with built in package managers, and dependencies rarely depend on transitive dependencies, though it comes at the cost of adding dependencies (especially transitive dependencies) being extremely difficult (I hear Meson subprojects help, and CMake has their own worse version I didn't try).