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> Rust has been designed in the internet era and leverages dependencies for things older languages would ship with (rand!) Weird justification for missing an e

> Rust has been designed in the internet era and leverages dependencies for things older languages would ship with (rand!) Weird justification for missing an extremely central and extraordinarily important feature… How does rand being a crate make Rust ”internet era“ in any way?

orf 5y ago
> Weird justification for missing an extremely central and extraordinarily important feature Can you think of any reason why decoupling it from the language itself would be a good idea? Why does it need to be baked in, and what problems would arise if it was? How do these problems trade off against having people just run “cargo add rand”?
nullc 5y ago
> How does rand being a crate make Rust ”internet era“ in any way? Having an boundlessly large and thoroughly unauditable trusted computing base is extremely "Internet" -- or "webscale" to be more precise.