> Or you need to add a library. In C that's #include and a -l linker flag. In Rust, you now need to work through [link to cargo docs] This is just bizarre to m

> Or you need to add a library. In C that's #include and a -l linker flag. In Rust, you now need to work through [link to cargo docs] This is just bizarre to me, the claim that dependency management is easier in C projects than in Rust. It is incredibly rare that adding a dependency to a C project is just an #include and -l flag away. What decent-sized project doesn't use autotools or cmake or meson or whatever? Adding a dependency to any of those build systems is more work than adding a single, short line to Cargo.toml. And even if you are just using a hand-crafted makefile (no thank you, for any kind of non-trivial, cross-platform project), how do you know that dependency is present on the system? You're basically just ignoring that problem and forcing your users to deal with it.