I worked on a couple commercial C++ applications that used vcpkg. It’s not as convenient as nuget, cargo or npm but it think it is a massive improvement over manually hunting for dependencies.

Here are a couple of reasons:

• C and C++ projects often predate Gradle by decades they will not change their build system without a compelling reason.
• Gradle is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime.
• At least for C++, CMake has pretty much become the standard build tool.
• Dependency resolution on Linux was ‘solved’ by relying on the distribution. Today, there also exist package managers for C and C++ like vcpkg or conan and they also integrate with CMake.

Interesting I did not know that.

That is a limitation of the keyboard not PS/2. Unlike USB which is limited to 10 simultaneous key presses, PS/2 supports full n-key rollover.