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Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS (thenewstack.io)

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow.

Dude what? C’s build systems like cmake are notoriously unfriendly to users. Crates make building trivial compared to the ridiculous hoops needed for C.

I wouldn't be surprised, if the guy does not normally use a build system to begin with. Professors don't tend to have the time to write software that would require a build system (both in terms of complexity and being used by end users).

So, I'm guessing, all he wanted was rustc, but most Rust tutorials don't bother explaining it, because cargo isn't much harder to use.