That’s fine, but most modern tooling “automates” this for you and gives you easy tooling to manage versions as well. Additionally, you get a nice list in a sim

That’s fine, but most modern tooling “automates” this for you and gives you easy tooling to manage versions as well. Additionally, you get a nice list in a simple spot of exactly what you need that isn’t just documentation. Anyone can easily pull your project and contribute. Being able to easily manage deps has issues (such as a tendency to trend toward left-pad), but there’s also significant benefits as well that become readily apparent when you compare cargo with CMake (I understand they’re not completely comparable)