The irony of cargo not supporting binary libraries is that the usual solution ends up reducing the number of dependencies, and being forced to rewrite ourselves the solution in another way.
If you want to set up something like this for your own use, look into sccache. Integrating this more broadly into cargo would be generally pretty useless without a stable Rust ABI.
Yeah that is a possible solution, but still not quite what vcpkg, conan and distribution repositories offer, or having COM/Windows Runtime libraries.
I look forward when cargo offers that as an option, doesn't mean everyone has to offer their libraries that way, just having the possibility on crates.io would be nice.
I am also very thankful for what has been achieved thus far, so don't take this as thankless complaint rather as I would like Rust one day to be.
