I still wish for a serious book in the style of K&R or Stroustrup with no pictures, no mentioning of the package manager at all (sometimes it is mentioned in the first chapter!) and interesting code examples.
I write Rust and I agree. Hype is the downside of attracting trendiness.
And yes, I’ve done this (start a new project in a plane with no internet). Many times. eg: the world’s only PalmOS 5 device emulator (uARM-palm) was started while I was in a plane.
And if you really dislike Cargo, nothing is stopping you from using rustc + make directly.
The package manager just offers a common interface for interop, you can still build without dependencies.
If the packages are already available locally, cargo works offline.
I don't think everything needs to be corporate Memphis in text form. Let's have some squirrelfish extreme in this.
Corporate mode comes eventually with quality. And Rust has passed the initial hurdle of adoption. It's pretty much what Python was in the year 2000: the exciting new tech that has adoption.
UNIX also has a playful name (from Multics)
Damn, never heard of someone passing on a language because of pictures. First time for everything I suppose.
C++ has too many footguns and too much crap that makes it terrible... I am looking exactly at template compiler output and also cmake.
So, get on board or don't but don't try to make it C++ again.