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What's so good about Cargo?

• steveklabnik 2y ago
  Cargo makes the easy cases very easy. And because it has existed for a very long time, this means that “the easy case” is a very very large amount of the overall cases. This means that for the majority of folks and projects, it ends up being a very smooth experience. That does not mean that Cargo is perfect, and there’s a lot of stuff it doesn’t do well.
  • IAmLiterallyAB 2y ago
    In my limited experience, it makes the hard cases harder. I had a project where I needed to do some weird linker things and ended up moving to C++ because Cargo couldn't handle it.
    • steveklabnik 2y ago
      At $dayjob we have ended up building three different build systems on top of Cargo. You're not wrong. But luckily those things are pretty rare, in my experience. I am hoping that buck2 can get easier to use "in the small" and then just switch to it for all things, but it's too immature outside of Meta just yet.