It was great seeing a few of you at RustConf! Sorry I didn't get a chance to catch up after and sorry I wasn't able to meet everyone! I hope next time I'm in the Bay Area I'll be able to meet up with everyone again :)
I promised a few of you links to build system related threads, so wanted to make sure y'all've got all those links. The overall "Rust Roadmap" issue is located at
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/12 with the two primary issues hanging off Cargo being:
My guess is you'd be most interested in the build plan issue, as would many others! We're still working out a concrete design in this space but we'll be sure to keep those issues updated. An engineer at Mozilla on Gecko has created
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/4357 as a proof of concept, but it's likely to evolve before it lands so you may be interested in following that as well.
I'd also recommend commenting and such on those threads, as that way other Cargo team folks will be sure to see them!
Again, great to meet y'all at RustConf, and hope to see you again soon!