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No, there are smaller crates out there that enable a simple https request with far less crates. Much of that is due to not needing Tokio & co.

• worik 2y ago
  Yes. Part of the problem is there are so many, which do you choose? I found one (I forget the name to protect the guilty) but my simple use case broke it. I reached out to the authors, very helpful, I think they fixed it. But by then I had moved on (time is money) I sucked it up and went with importing all the tokio stuff I did not need (I absolutely did not need, almost no one does) Rust has painted itself into a corner. A really very good idea at its core, almost all of it is really terrific, but some corner cases like these make it very hard to take advantage of it
  • Klonoar 2y ago
    Deciding which one to try isn't hard at all: `ureq` is the de-facto small HTTP library that you'd reach for, and you're likely to find people referencing it within 2 minutes of Googling. The only thing `ureq` was missing that's common (ish) was a happy eyeballs implementation, and they've recently handled it. This just isn't a significant problem at all.
    • worik 2y ago
      > Deciding which one to try isn't hard at all Nonsense. If you are steeped in HTTPS clients for Rust, maybe, but I can tell you from personal experience that coming fresh to https://crates.io/search?q=https%20client https://crates.io/search?q=https%20client and friends is overwhelming
      • Klonoar 2y ago
        A few minutes in Google would've saved you that confusion, same way it works for any other package manager.