Posted by speckx 18 hours ago
It's really not clear to me why people keep avoiding that.
2) Note expired domains and register them yourself.
3) Supply chain compromise.
That, and not wanting people to fork out money for a domain as a requirement to participate in the ecosystem.
For that matter, using cargo is optional, you can compile rust code using GNU make or shell scripts if you want to. (That's what the Linux kernel does)