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Re:XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust by 21 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @09:11PM (#17943736)
> Does this ultimately boil down to "go install" (or whatever the Rust equivalent is) is easier to deal with than "./configure; make"?

Well, yeah. For once, "./configure; make" doesn't work on Windows. So you need CMake, or SCons, or Boost Jam, or any other cross platform build system. Then you have different ways of getting dependent libraries, like zlib. In short, the C/C++ cross platform "packaging" is just a mess.

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