I very much agree with your point, and want to add that in certain contexts, the same goes for performance. I do think that Rust making it easy doesn't necessa

I very much agree with your point, and want to add that in certain contexts, the same goes for performance. I do think that Rust making it easy doesn't necessarily mean that you have to use it. It's fine to write applications using only the stdlib, and only link to some known libs like openssl or libpq. In Rust's defense, it is easy to list all dependencies, and they don't automagically upgrade from one checkout to another.