We use it for OCaml because there’s nothing in OCaml that really exist to manage dependencies and build (opam and dune are awful). But it doesn’t work well with our Rust dependency. I think it could work well with our Rust dependencies (which needs to be packaged with a derivation and thus doesn’t work in a nix develop shell) if nix stops where Cargo begins, but it seems like it is not nix’s philosophy.
To say that a build system has nothing to do with dependencies is pretty telling about the OCaml tooling mindset.From Maven to Cargo, almost every modern build system integrates dep management. Only C/C++ is still lagging in that regard.
It’s not lagging. How you install dep as conceptually nothing to do with how you link and build. You can tell dune to use dependencies installed with opam easily enough and opam takes care of managing and locking transitive dep. These are entirely different concerns. I am tempted to say "Kids these days" but that wouldn’t be condescending enough.
as the other comment says, you can't have a build system that doesn't care about dependencies, otherwise different environments will use different dependencies to build.
