Yeah, I almost changed that "Ada dev" since as a polyglot dev, I figured you'd correct me. What I meant was that you had significant Ada experience (or I'm confusing you w/someone else).

Anyway, yeah, Maven is very good and competes with cargo, as well. I agree.

Nuget? Absolutely not, based on my previously undefined rubric. Unlike Maven and cargo, it's just a package manager unless it's recently been expanded (I'm not much of a Windows guy, so not sure). With some pretty crappy defaults as of a year or two ago. No idea about vcpkg or conan.

(I probably should have specified that I'm comparing among package manager that include build tools - or vice versa).

Edit: I suspect cargo will get around to binary packages at some point, as soon as that limitation is resolved in rustc using something like TUF. cargo has not been around nearly as long as Maven.

Btw, I'm also a polyglot dev. I've never used rust professionally (unlike say Ada), but I do really appreciate cargo.

And for the record, despite my love for functional programming, I also have a strong appreciation for Java (not as much as Ada, but it's a great language when used by competent devs).