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They are cross-language though, something I (as a user) personally value much much more highly than a cross-platform package manager which also supports a bunch of random platforms which I don’t care about at all. For developers/software distributors, this may of course look very different.

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As a (mostly) windows user, they're completely useless to me. If it works for all linux users, it's not a C++ package manager, it's a linux package manager.

You can use `conda` cross-platform to install many C++ libraries.

The package managers that are listed in the post are cross-platform and work on windows.

Well sure, but I wasn't talking about them. I was replying to someone who wrote

> in a way apt and yum are package manager for c++

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