I used to think the same way seeing cargo pull so many LOCs, but let's be real, I am not going to write my HTTP server by hand, nor my postgresql driver. And th

I used to think the same way seeing cargo pull so many LOCs, but let's be real, I am not going to write my HTTP server by hand, nor my postgresql driver. And those are the ones that pull a lot of dependencies. As for smaller QOL dependencies, I might as well use them directly as I need them, instead of spending 3h building something similar but half as good and robust, just to decrement my dependencies counter by 1. I've had very few issues with Rust where an old project can't be built anymore because of rotting dependencies, when it happens almost every time with JS or Python. This is my largest gripe with dependencies. I do still think Rust would have been better off with a larger stdlib, but ultimately it's really not that big of a deal and isn't worth it rewriting code for the sake of reducing a meter.