[freedomben]

GP mostly answered that in the comment already:

> If you could install regular rust dependencies with "apt install" in debian stable, that would be a different story! But no. They want the version churn: continuously adding and removing bugs, like particle/anti-particle pairs at the boundary of a black hole.

[raincole]

I don't know, it doesn't explain how and why Cargo causes "continuously adding and removing bugs, like particle/anti-particle pairs at the boundary of a black hole."

[adastra22]

They are conflating unrelated things. Cargo is a downstream result of the thing that annoys them, not the cause. What they don’t like is that rust is statically linked with strong versioned dependencies. There are pros and cons to that, but one outcome (which some list as pro and some list as con) is that you need to recompile world for every project. Hence, cargo.

[steveklabnik]

The problem, of course, is that "apt install" only works on platforms that use apt to manage their packages.

[pepa65]

Depending on the particular apt repo to be ready and have what you need would be so much more of a nightmare!