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> It’s extremely rare that everything fits nicely into “cargo build”

161538 crates do not agree with you ;)

Which are mostly small, isolated library code, whose purpose is to be easily incorporated into larger programs. That’s the 90% easy path of build tools.

What about a large project built over 6 years by 50 people, and that has to use some obscure technology to communicate with company A, and another one that has an idiotic build step?

> Which are mostly small, isolated library code, whose purpose is to be easily incorporated into larger programs.

Which is how software should be generally made - from small and simple things, not from huge behemoths that contain the kitchen sink and brew coffee.

The apps are also built using cargo build.

For your outlandish use cases you can use Bazel.

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