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  • Crates-io 0.32.0 (accidentally) downgraded and published again as 0.31.1? (2020)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2024
  • Surprisingly Powerful – Serverless WASM with Rust Article 1
    5 projects | dev.to | 27 Apr 2024
    Installing Trunk happens through Cargo. Remember, Cargo is more than a package manager, it also supports sub-commands.
  • Understanding Dependencies in Programming
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    Dependency Management in Other Languages: We've discussed Python and Node.js in this article, but dependency management is a universal concept in programming. Exploring how you handle dependencies in other languages like Java, C#, or Rust could be beneficial. (I think Rust's cargo is an excellent example of a package manager.)
  • Cargo Script
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
  • Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
    Nice hack! Would it have been possible back then to use cargo to pull in some dependencies?

    The clean solution of cargo script is here: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12207

  • Making Rust binaries smaller by default
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    Yes, I am sure this is going to be a part of Rust 1.77.0 and it will release on 21st March. I say that because of the tag in the PR (https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13257#event-11505613...).

    I'm no expert on Rust compiler development, but my understanding is that all code that is merged into master is available on nightly. If they're not behind a feature flag (this one isn't), they'll be available in a full release within 12 weeks of being merged. Larger features that need a lot more testing remain behind feature flags. Once they are merged into master, they remain on nightly until they're sufficiently tested. The multi-threaded frontend (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html) is an example of such a feature. It'll remain nightly only for several months.

    Again, I'm not an expert. This is based on what I've observed of Rust development.

  • You can't do that because I hate you
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023
    The author provides very surface-level criticism of two Rust tools, but they don't look into why those choices were made.

    With about five minutes of my time, I found out:

    wrap_comments was introduced in 2019 [0]. There are bugs in the implementation (it breaks Markdown tables), so the option hasn't been marked as stable. Progress on the issue has been spotty.

    --no-merge-sources is not trivial to re-implement [1]. The author has already explained why the flag no longer works -- Cargo integrated the command, but not all of the flags. This commit [2] explains why this functionality was removed in the first place.

    Rust is open source, so the author of this blog post could improve the state of the software they care about by championing these issues. The --no-merge-sources error message even encourages you to open an issue, presumably so that the authors of Cargo can gauge the importance of certain flags/features.

    You could even do something much simpler, like adding a comment to the related issues mentioning that you ran into these rough edges and that it made your life a little worse, or with a workaround that you found.

    Alternatively, you can continue to write about how much free software sucks.

    [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/3347

    [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10344

    [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/commit/3842d8e6f20067f716...

  • Cargo has never frustrated me like npm or pip has. Does Cargo ever get frustrating? Does anyone ever find themselves in dependency hell?
    13 projects | /r/rust | 6 Dec 2023
    You try to use it as a part of multi-language project, with an external build tool to tie it all together, and you discover that --out-dir flag is still not stabilized over some future compatibility concerns.
  • State of Mozilla
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
  • Learning Rust by Building a CLI App
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Aug 2023
    To create a new application we'll use cargo (a build tool and also a package manager for Rust. It is used for scaffolding new library/binary projects). So in your projects folder, you can run this command in your terminal:
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