Posts tagged "cargo"

Rust's incremental cache is a dependency graph, not a saved compiler process. Learn what an edit dirties, how green nodes are recovered, and why Cargo may still run rustc.

Rust 1.97 lets Cargo deny cached lint warnings without rebuilding crates under different RUSTFLAGS. Here is the behaviour and the migration path.

A concrete Cargo dependency graph showing when features unite across workspace packages and when host, target, and platform edges stay separate.

Cargo resolver 3 prefers dependency releases compatible with your declared rust-version. See where fallback helps, where it cannot, and how workspaces change the result.

Cargo build scripts are cached from declared file and environment inputs. Use rerun-if rules, verbose evidence, and a rebuild matrix to remove accidental rebuilds.