Cargo

/ˈkɑːr.ɡoʊ/ · Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. The official build system and package manager for Rust, handling dependency resolution, compilation, testing, benchmarking, documentation generation, and publishing crates to crates.io.

    In plain English: Rust's all-in-one tool for building your code, downloading libraries, running tests, and publishing packages.

    Example: "cargo build --release produces an optimized binary; cargo test runs every #[test] function in the project."

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