On: How to organize large Rust codebases

[sshine]

Cargo doesn’t handle non-Rust dependencies. For example, the protobuf compiler when called from build.rs.

People use devcontainers, Nix flakes or large build systems like Bazel to describe the build environment.

[yencabulator → sshine]

https://github.com/andrewhickman/protox is a pure-Rust protobuf compiler.

The argument works better for the likes of libclang.

[sshine → yencabulator]

Thank you for the recommendation.