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Rust is another example of this. Just bringing in grpc and protobuf gets about a hundred dependencies. Some of them seemingly unrelated. For a language aimed at
by galangalalgol 4y ago
Rust is another example of this. Just bringing in grpc and protobuf gets about a hundred dependencies. Some of them seemingly unrelated. For a language aimed at avoiding security bugs, I find this to be an issue. But a good dependency manager and a small (or optionally absent) stdlib has lead to highly granular dependencies and bringing in giant libs for tiny bits.