[slau]

Using Rust without using the features provided by Cargo is akin to buying an electric car and asking for all the electronics to be removed.

Rust libraries will never be shipped by your distro’s package manager. Maybe a few exceptions for things that also have C bindings, but it will never be the default.

[steveklabnik]

Many Rust libraries are shipped by distro package mangers, right now. But in general, those packages are intended to be used to build the Rust programs that are packaged in the distro, and not for general use. So it is going to be a painful way to try to write programs using Rust's ecosystem, as it is with basically every other non-C or C++ language.

[bfrog]

It’s painful with c and c++ as well, the tool chain/libraries a distributor provides are almost never the ones you want to develop with as they are often ancient