It is baffling to me that a language that is as focused on safety/security as Rust decided to take the JavaScript approach to their ecosystem. I find it rather contradictory.

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embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's because you're mixing things. "Rust the language" isn't the one starting new projects and add new dependencies that have hundreds of dependencies of their own, this is the doing of developers. The developers who built Rust with a focus on safety and security is not the same developers mentioned before.

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seanw444 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's true. But it does seem like a logic result of having no real standard library. That lone fact has kept me away from Rust for real projects, because I don't want to pull in a bunch of defacto-standard-but-not-officially dependencies for simple tasks. That's probably a large contributor to the current state of dependency bloat.

	▲	embedding-shape 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it does require you to be meticulous about what you depend on. Personally I stick with libraries that don't use 100s of other crates, and tried and reviewed various libraries over the year, so you have your "toolkit" of libraries you know are well built and you know how they work internally. Ultimately in any language you get the sort of experience you build for yourself with the environment you setup, it is possible in most languages to be more conservative and minimal even if the ecosystem at large is not, but it does require more care and time.

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cromka 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Same here.