[coldpie]

Try building any Rust project while GitHub is down.

[chockchocschoir]

That's only applicable if you use crates directly from GitHub repositories right? I've been sitting and developing+building a Rust project for the last +10 hours (except the minutes when I was here arguing on HN) and never hit any issues, but I'm using crates either directly from disk (cloned from GitHub initially) or from crates.io.

[coldpie]

I could be wrong, but try a fresh build with a clean CARGO_HOME (or maybe just a cargo update?). It seems to query a lot if you don't have a full cache.

[steveklabnik]

While it's true that Cargo will attempt to check on some things, you can pass flags to tell it to not bother. Specifically, https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/cargo/commands/cargo.html#o...