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Rust, the language itself depends on 220 packages: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e8753914580fb42554a79a4b5c5fb4cc98933231/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs#L1

by nicce 2y ago

Rust, the language itself depends on 220 packages: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e8753914580fb42554a79a4b5c5fb4cc98933231/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs#L191 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e8753914580fb42554a79... If you trust nobody, it is hard to use anything. But about your second note, (environment, mismatched dependencies), I would argue that Rust provides the best tooling to solve or identify issues on that area.

hu3 2y ago
Rust depending on 220 packages is somewhat understandable. After all it runs on many platforms. I counted 16 Windows packages just by glancing over and also many macOS related. But 541 for docs? Surely there's a gradient between trusting no one and trusting 541 packages to generate static files.
- nicce 2y ago
  Are you confusing `docs.rs` with `cargo doc`? It is indeed many packages, but if you look into the dependencies and code, docs is full blown standalone HTTP async server which uses tokio, AWS S3 and Postgresql. It is used to host the docs.rs where is the documentation of every cargo project. Maybe they should feature-gate some functionality and also split the dependencies Static site generator is mostly in the Rust itself: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/librustdoc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/librustdoc