> How often are folks writing applications that don’t need to connect to the web these days? In Go? Rarely, I would expect. In Rust, I'd assume connecting to t

> How often are folks writing applications that don’t need to connect to the web these days? In Go? Rarely, I would expect. In Rust, I'd assume connecting to the web is the exception rather than the norm. Most Rust projects tend to be lower-level infrastructure & systems programming. This probably explains, and in turn is explained by, their different choices re: http in stdlib. They have much different aims and target use-case.