Over decades, I had developed an almost not-invented-here attitude exact because dependencies are always such a pita (oh Python hell) and drag in a lot of bloat

Over decades, I had developed an almost not-invented-here attitude exact because dependencies are always such a pita (oh Python hell) and drag in a lot of bloat. Rust is the first language I have used where external dependencies (from crates.io) Just Works(TM). However they can still drag in bloat :)