> The second biggest flaw is that it couples package management to a programming language, despite those being almost completely unrelated concerns. Yes it's f

> The second biggest flaw is that it couples package management to a programming language, despite those being almost completely unrelated concerns. Yes it's frustrating. I wish it was more decoupled, maybe with package standards like Haskell tried to do with Cabal. It makes it hard to use Rust as a drop-in replacement for C. I can add a few C files to a Haskell project without much problem, but most rust code goes via cargo.