Small Rust projects are... urgh. I spend more time downloading packages, and cleaning up the sometimes hundreds of megabytes of random crap, than I do developin

Small Rust projects are... urgh. I spend more time downloading packages, and cleaning up the sometimes hundreds of megabytes of random crap, than I do developing. Easily finished small python projects in less time than the download-compile-cycle of Rust. My python projects usually rely almost entirely on the same 3 or 4 already downloaded libraries, plus the large stdlib. They run 3.8. That experience is not comparable, and not in favour of Rust. Maybe it's because I don't use whatever Tox is, but I don't. So no. Not beginner friendly.