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by Ar-Curunir 1252 days ago
That’s just not true. Just the fact that you can reuse libraries easily makes Rust much easier. That combined with memory safety means that the two biggest headaches of C and C++ are just gone.
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I don't know why you are being downvoted, but in my experience this is exactly right.

The pain of adding third party C++ dependencies is undeniable, especially in a cross-platform manner. I've had the displeasure of maintaining three different C++ build systems in 3 different companies, and they were all a nightmare.

Contrast that with cargo that just... works.