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I tried to compile a rust project the other day and I realised I had to download hundreds of dependencies. I guess strong typing helps but dependency hell is ju

by _pdp_ 4y ago

I tried to compile a rust project the other day and I realised I had to download hundreds of dependencies. I guess strong typing helps but dependency hell is just common for any moderately popular platform.

CoolestBeans 4y ago
With both Rust and node, it isn’t easy to do the things that should be easy. So developers will take the path of least resistance to make it easy. And both Rust and node make their package manager their project manager so everyone is an “npm i” or a “cargo add” away from making their lives easier.
gdprrrr 4y ago
I'd say that's better then the C way, where every projects Implements their own version of a linked list, json parser and so on, no?
- Gigachad 4y ago
  C hides all the dependancies. Rather than seeing the 100 sub dependancies, they just tell you to download the binary of libthing where the sub dependancies are prebaked in so it looks like you have 4 dependancies.
  - LtWorf 4y ago
    Maybe on windows. Certainly not on linux.
aliqot 4y ago
To be fair a lot of the JS developers that wanted something better moved to Rust, and brought a lot of the same ethos with them. Anybody who's looked at the import list to their favorite Rust app has probably said to themselves "woah its just like a node app". Not saying it's a bad thing, I'm more of a stdlib guy but I see how it grew to be the way it is.