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by supergarfield 2030 days ago
Not OP, but I'm a bit against using cargo (or any other language-specific dependency manager) as a general purpose package manager. It forces me to periodically run updates on many different managers, it doesn't always interface as well with other system / distribution idiosyncrasies as the native package manager, and I don't want to remember or have to care about what tool is written on what language. (Of course, they have their place for specificic use cases, just imo not system-wide installs of random binaries)

So I can see why it's a problem if it works with cargo but not with brew.
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shepmaster 2030 days ago
> I'm a bit against using cargo

Sure and that's fine, but the original comment wasn't clear that they were waiting for homebrew to ship an arm64 version of Rust. The phrasing made it sound like Rust itself was the aspect blocking those tools from working. That's the point I was addressing.

> not system-wide installs

rustup installs Rust into your home directory by default, and then `cargo install` follows suit, so it's not system-wide.

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