My issue with it at the time had to do with... how to put it... simply build the extension, & carry on with my life. Version after version it would build alright, and then suddenly, boom, it doesn't work no more. Okay, I understand that perhaps ppc64el is not the most popular architecture, and some things aren't easily portable, but this otherwise mirrors my experience with Rust programs. It's always requiring the latest version of everything. The recommended installation path involves sudoing shell scripts over network, and I'm sure Rust people love it, salivating over new versions and features that come along, constantly staying up to date, but to the rest of us normal people dealing with Rust software is a chore.

Cmake is a huge quality-of-life improvement all things considering!