Lack of orphan instances really aren't that bad of a problem in practice. If really necessary, the newtype pattern is very easy to do in Rust and has the benefi

Lack of orphan instances really aren't that bad of a problem in practice. If really necessary, the newtype pattern is very easy to do in Rust and has the benefit of never conflicting if the dependency adds a trait implementation. What is way more important is keeping your crate sizes manageable since IIRC Rust doesn't do any incremental/parallel compilation within a single crate. Compilation speed isn't just one number. While 5min isn't bad at all for compiling a whole project from scratch including dependencies, 5min is a really long time for incremental builds.