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While I love Rust, I think you're spot on with your concerns (apart from the questionmark operator – it's just delicious pragmatic convenience). The culture of
by gspr 4y ago
While I love Rust, I think you're spot on with your concerns (apart from the questionmark operator – it's just delicious pragmatic convenience).
The culture of exploding dependency trees is a recipe for disaster, especially when combined with the prevailing attitude of "use the latest version or bust".
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoYeah, I've been down this road before with Java + Maven 10-15 years ago. Exploding dependency trees, DLL hell, etc. And I see it in the (admittedly mostly foreign to me) Node/NPM world. Quantities of third party dependencies with their own graphs can be trouble. At least with Maven there was a publishing/vetting process. Still, it makes dev a lot easier.