I had somewhat of a similar experience setting up a build.rs for a crate. I wanted to do some pre-build command execution/file moving/etc and was shocked at ho

I had somewhat of a similar experience setting up a build.rs for a crate. I wanted to do some pre-build command execution/file moving/etc and was shocked at how little fuss was actually involved. More work than bash/python? Sure. Worked first time barring logic bugs? Hell yes. Also +1 on Rust iterators, they're a sublime mix of ownership semantics and functional constructs.