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I really hope this trend doesn't continue, honestly. I shouldn't need the toolchain for a language that something was written in just to use that thing. It's

I really hope this trend doesn't continue, honestly. I shouldn't need the toolchain for a language that something was written in just to use that thing. It's very common with Go projects, too, but it's kind of a reversion back to the "./configure; make ; make install" days.

HelloNurse 5y ago
Most modern toolchains are robust, easy to use, and shared between many non-packages. Go, Rust and Node.js cover a large portion of recent projects, and many others cheat with Docker or the like.
bluejekyll 5y ago
As far as I can tell, most of the package managers are just calling cargo under the covers anyway.
- mgalgs 5y ago
  Only if they're building from scratch. Binary packages would have no need for cargo.