[JuniperMesos]

> The main problem with rust is that the community around it has embraced all the toxic traditions of the js/node ecosystem, and then some. Cargo is a terrifying nightmare. 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.

Something I didn't appreciate for a long time is that, the C/C++ ecosystem does have an npm-like package management ecosystem - it is just implemented at the level of Linux distro maintainers DDD deciding what to package and how. Which worked ok because C was the lingua franca of Unix systems.

But actually it's valuable for programmers to be able to specify their dependencies for their own projects and update them on a schedule unconnected and uncoordinated with the OS's releases. The cargo/npm model is closer to ideal.

Of course what is even better is NixOS-like declarative specification and hashing of all dependencies