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One of the first uses for Rust was rewriting parts of Firefox yet "Cargo was not designed for integration into existing build systems"? That's hard to believe.
by anoncake 5y ago
One of the first uses for Rust was rewriting parts of Firefox yet "Cargo was not designed for integration into existing build systems"? That's hard to believe.
- glandium 5y agoFirefox uses cargo and has to go through a lot of hoops for the build system to work. And the result is flaky and far from ideal for fast builds. Build plans support would help but has not progressed in the past few years. Worse, it was removed. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5579#issuecomment-560471184 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5579#issuecomment-...