[kstrauser]

I’m going to use Cargo as a random example here. With Cargo, I can:

* Download a bunch of dependencies

* Build them with their own specific instructions

* Build all the code in my own arbitrarily complex source tree

* Link it all into a production-quality executable

…all without having to know or care how to do all those things myself.

I know how to do all those things. It no longer sparks joy in me to repeat the boilerplate of doing all them again and again in every project I start. It’s hugely appealing to me for a language to handle all that piffle just as it handles memory management, type enforcement, encoding loops as gotos, and all the rest.

I can write assembler, or machine code if needed. I can also find outdated .o files and rebuild them. But why? Let someone else handle the details so I can write code.