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by AlotOfReading
1809 days ago
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I used to agree, but I eventually needed to add support in CMake for a particular IDE and got far too familiar with it. It's easy to debug and the syntax could be worse. Whoever came up with the list representation needs to be arrested though. It might be stockholm syndrome, but I'd rank it worse than Meson and better than Makefiles. Autotools can go die in a fire. Cargo is wonderful, but having something that user-friendly and well designed in C would feel incongruous with the rest of the ecosystem. |
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You really did say this.
Cargo does get some flak from C and C++ build systems. It is definitely not perfect, but which build system is?
The coolest thing about cargo is that it can be and is significantly improved over time. The whole dependency resolution was improved to resolve some long standing issues lately in a backward compatible way and that’s just astounding that they managed to ship this.
Do I like cargo? No. Do I like it better than CMake Meson Bazel Auto tools and make files? Hell yeah, by far, I’d rather get shot than go back to cmake or Auto tools .