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Re:Announcing Rust 1.7 by steveklabnik on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:05PM (#11220029)
You can absolutely use Rust without Cargo, you'd just call `rustc` yourself directly.
Re:Announcing Rust 1.7 by merlincorey on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:21PM (#11220136)
That's just what I wanted to hear!

Thanks again.

Re:Announcing Rust 1.7 by kibwen on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:55PM (#11220359)
To elaborate on Steve's comment, Cargo fundamentally operates by calling rustc itself. You can pass the `--verbose` flag to Cargo to see the commands that it generates.