[tedmielczarek]

> I am not sure if this directly applies to your post, but it came to mind when I read the section about `extern crate`. It seems like the Cargo system is relied upon by almost all Rust users, and I am not sure if this is an ergonomics problem or a lack of understanding on my part.

This is definitely true, and I don't think it's negative. You can use Rust without Cargo and crates.io, but it feels very different. It's nice that that option exists, but I wouldn't want to work that way. Any sizeable project is likely to accumulate a large number of crates.io dependencies, but having written a lot of C++ code, the alternatives are "reimplement this thing myself" or "copy paste some code", neither of which are particularly good.

[no_protocol]

Oops, I used `this` when I should have said `the following.` I have updated the line in my post above.

I wasn't suggesting Cargo being relied upon by everyone was an ergonomics issue, but instead referring to the description in the remainder of my post.