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Ok, but do you actually enjoy using CMake, or do you accept how horribly complex it is because it lets you do some esoteric thing you want to do?

Every tool has limitations, sure. But I think you're disagreeing about something I didn't even say. I didn't say cargo can replace CMake. I said that cargo is really a pleasure to use when it's the tool you need. If you had the choice to either build with CMake or cargo, I promise you that you'd rather use cargo if possible.

Building most C/C++ projects seems pretty miserable no matter what build process you're using. CMake seems like a huge mental burden in itself. Cargo just does its job and gets out of the way.