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Cargo isn't just TOML, it's TOML, plus a build.rs script, written in Rust, for everything you can't express in the TOML. I agree that a lot of the time, you do

by twic 6y ago

Cargo isn't just TOML, it's TOML, plus a build.rs script, written in Rust, for everything you can't express in the TOML. I agree that a lot of the time, you don't need Gradle's sophistication. But large, complex projects, in my experience, inevitably develop strange and unusual build needs. At that point, if your tool doesn't support them naturally, the complexity ends up going somewhere else - you have to write plugins, or standalone tools, or build script generators, or manage a lot of repetition in the build script, or multiply subprojects, etc, so you can do what you need to do.

bsder 6y ago
> Cargo isn't just TOML, it's TOML, plus a build.rs script, written in Rust, for everything you can't express in the TOML. Cargo is nice--until you have to coexist with something else that also wants to own the world of the build process. And that build.rs script causes a LOT of heartburn when your needs get larger or you need repeatable builds. I don't know what the right answer is, but cargo is exactly the kind of system you describe that you have to start working around when you have more sophisticated needs.