Rust's cargo very much has a first mover advantage. Since (almost) all rust projects use cargo, it doesn't have to fit/work with any other styles. I think this

Rust's cargo very much has a first mover advantage. Since (almost) all rust projects use cargo, it doesn't have to fit/work with any other styles. I think this position is close to untenable in the C++ ecosystem and for existing codebases therein, since it's too much effort to port large dependencies and thus, it remains very hard to convince people to adopt it. But I'd love seeing something like this, since cargo is pretty much the best thing ever in this space IMHO. The only way I can imagine this working is a very large vendor pushing it hard for their platform. This is effectively just Microsoft, all other platforms either use Java/C#/Swift/JS/... or are much more community driven.