Bit of a side note but remember cargo learned a lot from generations of package managers, across languages. It essentially represents some of the best that package managers have to offer. You only get that kind of result by starting from scratch every few years (as in, rust started from scratch when the Node/NPM ecosystem had been around for years to steal ideas from, Haskell had been around for years to steal language design from, etc.).
Rust is incredibly lucky to have been created when it was because it benefits immensely from these things (I think it's the best new-to-middle-aged production-usable systems language out there today).
I agree with the idea but languages like Python and their ecosystems are really hard to move (remember python 2->3? is that even over?) -- it's a herculean and often impossible task.
Cargo is not hugely different from Maven which has been working fine for over a decade. Yes, it takes some polished ideas from other systems, but Python has had more packaging tools come and go than several other ecosystems put together.
+1 from Maven. And Maven was launched in 2004, 17 (!) years ago. It's almost old enough to vote.
A lot of ecosystems put on some solid horse blinders in order to avoid Java at all costs (Javascript/Node/NPM being another example). They've avoided good ideas from Java for more than a decade.
Rust is incredibly lucky to have been created when it was because it benefits immensely from these things (I think it's the best new-to-middle-aged production-usable systems language out there today).
I agree with the idea but languages like Python and their ecosystems are really hard to move (remember python 2->3? is that even over?) -- it's a herculean and often impossible task.