This is all optional. You can just ... not add the one line to the cargo.toml and manually specify your favorite http library. Folks using many of these librari

This is all optional. You can just ... not add the one line to the cargo.toml and manually specify your favorite http library. Folks using many of these libraries or people new to the language can just specify rust-platform deps. This has the added benefit of bringing in versions that are known to work well together -- because of semver this isn't usually a problem, but people aren't perfect so sometimes things break. An added guarantee against that is nice to have.