I think conan has real potential when it comes to package management
Some example of what can be done with it https://gitlab.com/xadix/xonan
It is kind of like gentoo portage or nix pkg and can be used to manage your tool chain also
Some example of what can be done with it https://gitlab.com/xadix/xonan
It is kind of like gentoo portage or nix pkg and can be used to manage your tool chain also
vcpkg, on the other hand, as far as I know only exports to nuget and compressed archives. Nuget is great and all if you're purely in MS land, but otherwise... not so much. And with compressed archives, you're kinda on your own w.r.t versioning and so on. That being said, I'm much more familiar with conan, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Additionally, conan, being configurable via normal Python code (for better or worse), can really hack together pretty much any codebase (I've used it with autotools, MSBuild, CMake, and even Xcode).
I will definitely agree that the vcpkg team does ultimately seem to be more experienced, and it's a more polished tool (the conan docs are... lacking in areas, and updating conan will occasionally break things). It'll be interesting to see the direction both tools go in the future, as I would really like cross-platform C++ dependency management to stop being a total PITA.