Try out the OASIS build system. It's very similar to Cargo/Cabal (although it's separate from the package manager) in that you basically declare what you're working with and it does all the building for you. It's super simple to use and is good enough for 95% of use cases. As for traits/type classes, this is in development with the modular-implicits (experimental) fork of the compiler. It's highly likely that some form of this will make it into the language soon, but for now you can already start playing around with it if you want. It's super cool because it uses the module system to express type classes/traits rather than adding more parts to the language.