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The difference between unmaintained code in a stdlib and unmaintained code in a third party lib is artificial. I want the stdlib to be as lean as possible. Al

The difference between unmaintained code in a stdlib and unmaintained code in a third party lib is artificial. I want the stdlib to be as lean as possible. Also, as you just read, crates are compilation modules, hence generally this means more crates, lead to faster compile times.

pjmlp 5y ago
Until cargo supports binary dependencies this is only true for incremental builds. Microsoft has to ship binary libraries with build scripts to work around it, https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/tree/master/.windows https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/tree/master/.windows