I had very similar experiences with Rust and C++ lately. In Rust, all I wanted is to play an audio file... failed. In C++ all I wanted is to play an MP3 file.

I had very similar experiences with Rust and C++ lately. In Rust, all I wanted is to play an audio file... failed. In C++ all I wanted is to play an MP3 file... failed. With an hours of work I figured out how resources worked in Visual Studio and got a WAV file playing. In Rust I installed a creative coding crate, it had 314 dependencies and the deps folder was 540MB. My openframeworks C++ project is 1.6GB after a bit of playing around in it :) But yeah, node_modules is heavy. Bottom line is, when you are new to an environment and you aren't prepared to fight a battle, you will bleed out quite fast.