Well, there are significant differences between apt and cargo though right? Apt by and large installs pre-built binaries and ancillary stuff for projects writte

Well, there are significant differences between apt and cargo though right? Apt by and large installs pre-built binaries and ancillary stuff for projects written in... every language. Cargo fetches and builds Rust projects. If you wanted Cargo to do what Apt does, what it currently does would be a small percentage of its new total functionality. It might be cool if we "united" all the build apps (npm, pip, cargo, go, etc) under a similar interface, but that also sounds like a lot of work, which is why I think these package managers stick with binaries.