> Which brings me directly to what bothers me about the crate system and the sociology behind it – I don’t see any pruning. Worse, I don’t see much understandin

> Which brings me directly to what bothers me about the crate system and the sociology behind it – I don’t see any pruning. Worse, I don’t see much understanding of the need for it. A lot of Rustaceans don’t seem to grasp why, when the question is “where do I get feature X?” the answer “oh, there are 23 crates for that” is objectively terrifying. Actually, I think the community does recognize that this is a problem they are running into as they scale up. Previously there was the discussion of the Rust Platform [1] as a pseudo-stdlib which was received with a lot of mixed since the Python approach isn't actually all rainbows and sunshine. More recently, there has been effort to try to improve the discoverability of relevant crates [2]. [1] https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/07/27/rust-platform/ https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/07/27/rust-platform/ [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1824 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1824