>> It's possible I've still jaded because the first time I had to actually use cargo, it was setting it up for my team to work on it, and have it function, from within an air gapped network... never again!
You can use the 'cargo vendor' command to download all of a project's dependencies and then transfer them to an air-gapped environment.
This allows for the project's dependencies to be checked before they are introduced in the air-gapped environment and also placed in version control for a full snapshot of the project.
At $WORK we have been using Rust this way for a few years now and it has been great. Cargo is much easier to use than cmake, make, and other custom build scripts we were using before. After a few trials, we have been migrating projects from C/C++ to Rust and management has been impressed with the results. The code is equally fast, errors are down, and our velocity is improving since we find and correct more problems earlier in our processes.
You can use the 'cargo vendor' command to download all of a project's dependencies and then transfer them to an air-gapped environment.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-vendor.html
This allows for the project's dependencies to be checked before they are introduced in the air-gapped environment and also placed in version control for a full snapshot of the project.
At $WORK we have been using Rust this way for a few years now and it has been great. Cargo is much easier to use than cmake, make, and other custom build scripts we were using before. After a few trials, we have been migrating projects from C/C++ to Rust and management has been impressed with the results. The code is equally fast, errors are down, and our velocity is improving since we find and correct more problems earlier in our processes.