Edit: you've unfortunately been posting a ton like this (unsubstantive flamebait and name-calling). Please don't! We're trying for a different sort of forum.
Not dead at all. I have been working with a number of companies to help them use it. Surprising definition of dead. ;) Join us, be part of the solution!
11 years ago, I did something like that. I was trying to use particle swarm optimization to efficiently update neural network weights, it didn’t work well.
Don’t ask me why I even tried, I was a dumb but code happy undergrad!
I don't think modules are going to help with packaging. But vcpkg is getting pretty good, with C++'s ecosystem being the way it is. There is no one way, and it seems to allow for a multitude of build systems. I've been using it with it's newer manifest mode and mostly don't need to leave it these days.
I'd much rather my tax dollars be spent on 11B failed telescopes than failed trillion dollar fighter jets. Or really most other defense project to be honest.
India is severely undeveloped and polluted due to its population bomb explosion.
Climate scare-mongering doesn’t solve the root problem.