cargo is one of the unique selling points of Rust. It makes a developer's life easy by making the creating, developing, packaging, maintaining, testing, and deploying of application code or tools to production considerably more enjoyable. cargo is designed to be the single go-to tool for working on any type of Rust project across multiple stages such as the following:
- Project creation and management
- Configuring and executing builds
- Dependency installation and maintenance
- Testing
- Benchmarking
- Interfacing with other tools
- Packaging and publishing
Especially in the domain of systems programming, tools such as cargo are still rare—which is why many large-scale users developed their own versions. As a young language, Rust draws from the aspects that other tools got right: the versatility and central repository of npm (for Node.js), the ease...