@urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe
2026-10-26 13:43 UTC
The commenter above me is proposing g build rust projects without cargo, and mentioning make files (but also saying no other build tools so idk). I’m proposing why that doesn’t scale well, and why cargo would be the best choice
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@Ferk@lemmy.ml 2026-10-26 13:59
I think what’s being said is that rustc can be used in the same way as gcc (so… through makefiles, cmake and other build methods), without depending on cargo’s registry (your Makefile did depend on cargo registry). They are saying you can use existing tools with Rust, as opposed to making a new tool for Rust. This is something that is used in C widely, why does it not scale well?