Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Not quite. The build description remains in CMake. XCode/MSVS are used to work with the code.

> If the complaint is that the full autotools suite doesn't generate anything other than pure makefiles, that's a technical problem that can be rectified by someone willing to put the work into said feature. [1]

No. It can't be reasonably done in autotools without making them into CMake. It's possible in the same sense as all Turing-complete languages can emulate each other.

> FWIW, a quick bit of googling shows several folks successfully generating iOS libraries for autotools-based projects

Try it for real. It JustDoesntWork without tons of fiddling.