One of the ironies of depending so heavily, on my #FreeBSD desktop, on source repositories rather than compiled and ready-to-go applications is that I've compiled a fair bit of #Rust code, and a lot of other weird things, without knowing the slightest thing about the actual language (yet.) A question I find myself asking: was it entirely necessary for Rust to have come up with its own versions of shared libraries and other such packaged code, with their own jargon? But Rust is scarcely the only language who seems inclined to reinvent all that stuff. Was the old system so bad? (here's where someone probably CAN say 'yes' backed up by reams of immediately persuasive technical explanation.) ~Chara of Pnictogen