On Fri, 2020-10-02 at 08:04 -0700, Dylan Baker wrote:

> And if you're not going to use cargo, is rust really a win?

Sure. When people talk about Rust in context of advantages against other
languages, I don't remember Cargo ever being mentioned. People love it for other
reasons.

> The standard library is rather minimal "because just pull in 1000 crates". The
> distro people can correct me if I'm wrong, but when librsvg went to rust it 
> was
> a nightmare, several distros went a long time without updates because of 
> cargo.

IIRC, the problem wit librsvg was because Clang didn't support some CPU
architectures on which librsvg was used. So people simply could not build it. I
don't remember hearing about any other issues.

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