- Conan and vcpkg are probably the closest equivalent to other "language package managers" (e.g. Rust's cargo, or NodeJS's NPM).
- Spack is typically used in HPC/Scientific Computing domain.
- Nix (and Guix) are very powerful (system) package managers; these have enough nifty features that I'd call them "next-generation".
Probably also for sufficiently complicated projects, it may be worth mentioning sophisticated build tools like Bazel (which I think manages dependencies in its own way).
Spack dev here. Yep it's mainly used in HPC, but we'd love to see more folks using in other areas.
There is windows support now (in addition to linux and macOS), which I think was a roadblock for many, and we have gotten some very interest from folks outside the HPC community, e.g. Replica.one, who hope to use it for a software-defined OS for embedded devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMxNafpDhng (skip to ~12min for some discussion of Spack, Nix, Guix, and portage)
- Conan and vcpkg are probably the closest equivalent to other "language package managers" (e.g. Rust's cargo, or NodeJS's NPM).
- Spack is typically used in HPC/Scientific Computing domain.
- Nix (and Guix) are very powerful (system) package managers; these have enough nifty features that I'd call them "next-generation".
Probably also for sufficiently complicated projects, it may be worth mentioning sophisticated build tools like Bazel (which I think manages dependencies in its own way).