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150 mentions on Hacker News by 99 people: 6 stories, 144 comments · first 2014-06-24 · latest 2026-10-01

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  1. you may still need + to forward the job server to other builder https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14407
    comment by aniceperson · 2026-10-01 · in Recursive `make` and `-j`
  2. Supply chain risks are essentially a solved problem. 1. Set a minimum age on dependencies: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/15973 2. Scan all dependency code with AI Even if you don't do #2 yourself as long as anyone does in the…
    comment by orlp · 2026-09-08 · in We have a year to fix security everywhere
  3. It's a pity that progress has been so slow. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/17009
    comment by killme2008 · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  4. …stabilize the feature is in its final comment period and currently expected to land in Rust 1.100: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/17335#issuecomment-5...
    comment by kibwen · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  5. …anything newer than 7 days old packages cargo feature for this is still unstable infuriatingly: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/17009
    comment by lyu07282 · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  6. …Cargo has `min-publish-age` in nightly, and it's currently heading towards stabilization: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/17335
    comment by faern · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  7. …and will warn about new install scripts (without executing them). There is an open issue for this: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13681
    comment by praseodym · 2026-08-20 · in Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
  8. …that don't care about XDG. This 11 year old, open issue is very symptomatic of this IMHO: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1734
    comment by mr_mitm · 2026-08-05 · in Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
  9. The proposal's at https://hackmd.io/@rust-cargo-team/SJT-p_rL2 ; progress is tracked at https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12633 .
    comment by ameliaquining · 2026-07-16 · in How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
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    Show HN: An incremental build cache for Rust on GHA
    story by a_t48 · 2026-07-15 · 0 comments
  11. …measurements too. Would love built in coverage support but investigation is needed on the design ( https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13040 ) and we likely need to redo how we handle doctests ( https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/…
    comment by epage · 2025-12-28 · in Rust the Process
  12. …a dependency We want this on the Cargo team; somebody just needs to do the design work, see https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3126 Note that there is a related problem of feature evolution. Can you take existing functionality and…
    comment by epage · 2025-11-24 · in The Rust Performance Book (2020)
  13. …ttps://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/guide/build-performa... We're coordinating the work on that at https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/16119 > > If you use dev builds but don’t often use a debugger, consider disabling debuginfo.…
    comment by epage · 2025-11-24 · in The Rust Performance Book (2020)
  14. lib crates have been checking in their Cargo.lock for a while now. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/12382
    comment by the8472 · 2025-09-16 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
  15. …mean? At the bottom of the page, the latest update is a pull request that was opened 10 days ago: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/15684
    comment by Expurple · 2025-06-30 · in Error handling in Rust
  16. True, but this is being worked on now: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14774
    comment by Expurple · 2025-06-30 · in Error handling in Rust
  17. That work is being tracked in https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5931 Someone has taken up the work on this though there are some foundational steps first. 1. We need to delineate intermediate and final build artifacts so people…
    comment by epage · 2025-06-12 · in Rust compiler performance
  18. …in Rust 1.88 (currently on the beta channel, will become the new stable release in two weeks): https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12633 *EDIT: For now this only deletes old cached downloads, not build artifacts. Thanks epage for the…
    comment by mbrubeck · 2025-06-12 · in Rust compiler performance
  19. …https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-cache.html We are working on making this clearer with https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14125 where there will be `build.build-dir` (intermediate files) and `build.target-dir` (final…
    comment by epage · 2025-06-02 · in Reducing Cargo target directory size with -Zno-embed-metadata
  20. See https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13897#issue-228884... and https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13897#issuecomment... .
    comment by 0rzech · 2025-03-26 · in Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell
  21. …things only get done by people motivated to do them. Nobody has ever even asked for darcs support: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20sta... So the lack of darcs isn’t because the Cargo folks think it’s bad or…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2025-02-27 · in Fish 4
  22. …wasn’t don’t in a principled way (it happens!) and so it’s not simple. See here for more: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12102
    comment by steveklabnik · 2025-02-27 · in Fish 4
  23. …and the web-config tool and the man page generator (both written in python). Our issue for this is https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2729 Personally, I lean away from Cargo expanding into these use cases and prefer another tool…
    comment by epage · 2024-12-29 · in Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
  24. …application or app store. If you don't believe me, read that thread, and the linked thread. [1] - https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13994#issuecomment...
    comment by wokwokwok · 2024-10-29 · in Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator
  25. Just look at the proposal to add an --only-dependencies flag to cargo-build. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2644 Its a clusterfuck of people misdirecting the discussion, the maintainers completely missing the point, and in the…
    comment by lionkor · 2024-09-26 · in Rewriting Rust
  26. Work, is being done, though: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13873 .
    comment by afdbcreid · 2024-09-09 · in Comfy, the 2D rust game engine, is now archived
  27. …is a roulette of "did this tiny package update before everyone in the dependency tree noticed" [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7169
    comment by Starlevel004 · 2024-09-09 · in Comfy, the 2D rust game engine, is now archived
  28. …I just noticed this major problem". As an example of these is a recent PR of mine against Cargo: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/14239 In particular, the refactors leading up to the final change made it so the actual fix was a one…
    comment by epage · 2024-07-13 · in Things I know about Git commits
  29. ▲ 1
    crates-io 0.32.0 (accidentally) downgraded and published again as 0.31.1? (2020)
    story by transpute · 2024-05-28 · 0 comments
  30. …titled "cargo vendor-related questions asked by the community" [2] of related conversations. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7520 [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7520#issuecomment-...
    comment by xpe · 2024-03-26 · in Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO
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    Cargo Script
    story by jcbhmr · 2024-02-26 · 1 comment
  32. …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 Following the links, the RFC contains a nice list of similar tools:…
    comment by qznc · 2024-02-07 · in Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs
  33. …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…
    comment by nindalf · 2024-01-24 · in Making Rust binaries smaller by default
  34. …for putting the effort in! I noticed a very tiny typo which doesn't affect behaviour I think. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13257/files#r1464506...
    comment by afraca · 2024-01-24 · in Making Rust binaries smaller by default
  35. …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...
    comment by shepherdjerred · 2023-12-28 · in You can't do that because I hate you
  36. …want it and so that someone can decide to implement it. That message *could* be updated to point to https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10310 instead of asking for new issues to be created or suggesting the old `cargo-vendor`. (The…
    comment by Arnavion · 2023-12-28 · in You can't do that because I hate you
  37. You heard wrong? https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
    comment by Georgelemental · 2023-12-05 · in State of Mozilla
  38. …is still a bit half-assed -- I mean, take a look at this terminally open but rather critical issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3946 ; our $work source tree is littered with brittle hardcoded relative paths because of this…
    comment by cmrdporcupine · 2023-11-22 · in I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust
  39. And we'd like to have native support for these in cargo: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10881
    comment by epage · 2023-09-07 · in Semver violations are common, better tooling is the answer
  40. …might have been merged but (as you'll find out if you read through all of these) it isn't stable. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8147 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3349 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9322…
    comment by saurik · 2023-08-26 · in Leaving Haskell behind
  41. I actually agree, yet it still has shortcomings. For eg https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/545 is still open (it's from 2014!!)
    comment by nextaccountic · 2023-08-09 · in PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management
  42. …`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
    comment by epage · 2023-07-13 · in Rust 1.71.0
  43. You're probably running into this: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7058 `cargo vendor` will download dependencies and dev dependencies for all platforms, which leads to a lot of unused code being pulled in. In this case, the…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2023-06-28 · in Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
  44. …more than a year ago. Originally, it was pretty much only compilation artifacts and some CLI. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10563
    comment by drewtato · 2023-06-09 · in Rust module system encourages bad practices
  45. …to build them as well to actually get good performance. This is the upstream issue in question: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2644 Cargo fetch and/or cargo-chef kind of does these things, but not in a super intuitive and easy…
    comment by kjuulh · 2023-06-08 · in Rust module system encourages bad practices
  46. …more meant for binaries [2] [0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/workspaces.html#th... [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/12069 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3424
    comment by epage · 2023-06-08 · in Rust module system encourages bad practices
  47. …and the processes the core team and developers have set up. I am curious though what about https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/11285/files actually caused the resulting bug. I mean conceptually I get it, but it'd be neat to see some…
    comment by coderintherye · 2023-05-02 · in Postmortem Analysis in Cargo
  48. …for every project. Would be much nicer if they put the cache one .cache But they don't seem to care https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1734 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1615 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9178
    comment by jenadine · 2023-03-24 · in Use the XDG Base Directory Specification
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    'sparse' is now the default protocol for crates.io
    story by killcoder · 2023-03-06 · 0 comments
  50. Cargo is hard-coded to use GitHub for the crates.io index [1] [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/src/cargo/sou...
    comment by VWWHFSfQ · 2023-03-01 · in GitHub Packages Is Down