Kernighan shared his thoughts on what he thinks of the world today — with its push away from C to more memory-safe programming languages, its hundreds of distributions of Linux — and with descendants of Unix powering nearly every cellphone.
The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow.
Dude what? C’s build systems like cmake are notoriously unfriendly to users. Crates make building trivial compared to the ridiculous hoops needed for C.
I wouldn’t be surprised, if the guy does not normally use a build system to begin with. Professors don’t tend to have the time to write software that would require a build system (both in terms of complexity and being used by end users).
So, I’m guessing, all he wanted was rustc, but most Rust tutorials don’t bother explaining it, because cargo isn’t much harder to use.
I wouldn’t be surprised, if the guy does not normally use a build system to begin with. Professors don’t tend to have the time to write software that would require a build system (both in terms of complexity and being used by end users).
So, I’m guessing, all he wanted was
rustc, but most Rust tutorials don’t bother explaining it, becausecargoisn’t much harder to use.