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Re:Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other la... by platinumrad on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:56AM (#24846248)
You can do that in literally any language.
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Re:Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other la... by bschwindHN on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:06AM (#24846286)
Yep, but Rust makes it very easy to package and distribute libraries with Cargo, while maintaining performance on the level of C.

I was mostly replying to this:

> However, one of the reasons people use C and C++ is because of platform specific development. It turns out the platforms themselves are written in C.

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Re:Cargo-style dependency management for C, C++ and other la... by pjmlp on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:46AM (#24854979)
Most languages that offer AOT toolchains can do the same.
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