Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Another way cargo encourages upstream collaboration is standardisation. I believe that the biggest barrier to open-source contribution is actually getting the software built in the first place. It's generally easy with rust, because it's always the same, and because the compilation model and cargo seem well designed. Check out the source code and:

cargo takes care of finding and building the required dependencies. When you want to test your change it's cargo test. Finding the git repo for a dependency is easy too. It's linked to from its page on crates.io.

Note that nothing I've said above is related to rust as a language, it's all about tooling, but most importantly the culture of the rust community.