Re:Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo
by sanderjd on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:45AM
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> I do think C++ is in dire need of being replaced, it is unsafe at any speed and full of legacy cruft.
Lack of decent package management is part of that cruft. As someone else pointed out, you're definitely confusing this with system package management. A good package manager for Rust could make it much much easier to have good Windows support, because it could Windows-specific compilation and packaging problems in one place, rather than relying on each individual library author to solve them. There is no reason it couldn't interact nicely with Visual Studio, unless that is not something Visual Studio is interested in doing.
This could be a really good thing for your apparent interest in Rust, but you're looking at it through the narrow lens of your past frustrations, rather than thinking about and advocating for ways it could alleviate them.
Lack of decent package management is part of that cruft. As someone else pointed out, you're definitely confusing this with system package management. A good package manager for Rust could make it much much easier to have good Windows support, because it could Windows-specific compilation and packaging problems in one place, rather than relying on each individual library author to solve them. There is no reason it couldn't interact nicely with Visual Studio, unless that is not something Visual Studio is interested in doing.
This could be a really good thing for your apparent interest in Rust, but you're looking at it through the narrow lens of your past frustrations, rather than thinking about and advocating for ways it could alleviate them.