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I'm a debugger specialist, not a Rust specialist - but I'm surprised the experience of viewing data structures is not better for you.
What platform / debugger are you on? I'd expect the GDB pretty-printers (which from the article it looks like Rust has been shipping by default for the standard library) to be taking care of this relatively well - e.g. looking at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/72357 it appears that `HashMap` and `HashSet` have printers.
(Raw C++ data structures without some form of pretty printing are also incomprehensible for normal development - and I'd be surprised if third party libraries were particularly good at shipping pretty printers, though I may be wrong!)
From cargo's changelog [0]
> Automatically inherit workspace fields when running `cargo new`/`cargo init`. #12069 [1]
imo I think this is a big quality of life improvement
[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#...
[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/12069
Have you read the `semver` spec? Very small and approachable https://semver.org/ . If your project's dependencies are following semver, you can reduce your chance of dependency hell.
Thankfully some folks completly ignored whatever the rest of the world thinks system programming is all about and created:
- TinyGo (https://tinygo.org/), which is acknowledged by people in the industry[0][1]
- TamaGo unikernel on USB Armory secure key (https://www.withsecure.com/de/solutions/innovative-security-...)
And then there is the question if writing compilers, assemblers, linkers is systems programming or not.
[0]-https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/28/tinygo-go-compiler-f...
[1]-https://twitter.com/ArmSoftwareDev/status/131680481331796787...