I'm a hater of rust because of cargo and cargo - while it makes getting started easier, it is one of several opinions rust forces on me that are not compatible with my current code and so it make it more difficult to figure out how to incrementally start using rust in my code base. For small greenfields projects it is nice, but I'm not in that world and rust is fighting me.
That's fair, opinions are annoying when they don't align with your own (for me for example; I really hate that go-imports are URLs and the monorepo story for them is really bad... which I find ironic).
If you like rust, but hate Cargo, I'd suggest looking at building with Bazel :D
Bazel is a build system, but I don't use it as much as I'd like precisely because I'd have to manually write out all the DAG stuff.
