I would encourage you to see how other countries handle things. At least in NL, there are trains and busses too, and you can do all three if you want (train, bus, and bike). It’ll still be faster to commute by all three of those from halfway across the country than it is for most people to drive to San Francisco every morning (I know the SF commute, not the Chicago one).
Rural areas in all countries I’ve visited (which is a lot) pretty much require cars. There’s usually a train stop somewhat nearby, but you’d just drive where you need to go.
But when several states are there size of European countries, it puts some of that into perspective.
The size has never really been the issue. Suburbs aren’t the size of an entire state, and cities (okay. ignoring Texas) aren’t the size of European countries on their own. The issue is a lack of funding for alternative transportation methods.
Amtrack is dogshit. I don’t think anyone, even in the US, debates that. Now imagine Amtrack, but it’s a high speed rail that stops at the station every 30m or so. Also, it goes to every city in the country. Now you have a good public transportation system, and it’d be on par with some of the worst public transportation I’ve seen in Europe.
No, it wont. I wasn’t suggesting someone should use rustc directly. You’re already using Rust, so using cargo isn’t adding to the supply chain.
That being said, there was one time I needed to use rustc directly. We had an assignment that needed to be compilable from a single source file. I couldn’t bundle a Cargo.toml, so I gave a build script that used rustc directly.