cargo

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I was excited to learn how to package on cargo and to find that it's actual a very simple process”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “I had to clean out 180gb of cargo nonsense from the last ~3 days worth of compiles on a single, narrowly focused topic branch”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “The average cargo check for the projects I've worked on, usually finish in less than 1 second, with `cargo build` completing in a single digit second (often below 2s), it's not slow by any means.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “That's another Cargo.toml to maintain, and another place you might need to add/remove dependencies, and you have to manage the dependency tree among your sub-crates. The ergonomic impact is absolutely not literally zero, and I'd even say it's enough to be annoying.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “cargo check is inefficient and throws a lot of data away each time instead of caching it”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Cargo comes with "build.rs" for compile time code execution. Basically, your code (or your dependencies) can run arbitrary code when it first gets compiled.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “cargo audit` finds 3 vulnerabilities, you should fix them. Blazing safe.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-24

• “Starting up a cargo project literally doesn't require putting anything in the Cargo.toml that doesn't exist after you run `cargo new`.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-30

• “Rust and cargo compiling was slow enough that I didn't really enjoy it though”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “cargo build --release --target armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf` gives you a statically-linked inference binary. No Python runtime, no pip, no conda, no Docker. Copy it to a Raspberry Pi and it runs. This is why my HVAC models actually work in production”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-28

• “Any explanations as to why "cargo" does not seem to re-use libraries (dependencies) in a shared directory, or why it needs >2000 dependencies”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-16