To be completely clear: most of the long install process and crazy list of crate dependencies is due to building the Rust compiler toolchain and Cargo tool from

To be completely clear: most of the long install process and crazy list of crate dependencies is due to building the Rust compiler toolchain and Cargo tool from source, which MacPorts does when it cannot find corresponding binary packages. As far as I can tell, MacPorts is now shipping binary packages for the latest version of Rust (https://packages.macports.org/rust/ https://packages.macports.org/rust/), so this issue probably won’t crop up for most users. It’s likely that a package for the latest Rust wasn’t available at the time the post was made (or in any case, not for Darwin 22 on ARM64).