Cargo follows the principle of "easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible". Many C and C++ programmers aren't used to build tools behaving this way, and that emphasis on a simple workflow for simple use cases is sometimes confused for inflexibility.
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Completely agree! After not writing any C/C++ for well over a decade, I recently wrote a super-simple C++ app with
@nats_io and protocol buffers and it took WAY longer to setup the cmake build than it did to write the actual code! It should NOT be that way. My 2¢...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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When I was first exposed to
@rustlang through a conference session being taught by@nathanstocks, Cargo was SUPER helpful getting things setup and built.
BTW...if anyone wants to learn @rustlang,@nathanstocks is a very good teacher!
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Part of the reason why we went and built nitox :p
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Make actually provides this flexibility when you ignore most of the builtin C specific stuff and lean more on CLI tools.
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