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What actually surprised me in Rust, is the amount of fragmentation and abandoned libraries. For example, serde_yaml is archived and there are two other librarie
by endorphine 1y ago
What actually surprised me in Rust, is the amount of fragmentation and abandoned libraries. For example, serde_yaml is archived and there are two other libraries that do the same (?) thing. It seems like there's a significant effort required to search for and decide which (if at all) library to use. This is not so much pronounced in Go.
- jlarocco 1y agoMaybe that's the double edged sword of making the package manager so integrated into the language.
- jcgl 1y agoHow is cargo more integrated into the language than Go’s? I’ve little to no experience with Rust, but Go’s package management seems pretty fully integrated to me.
- simonask 1y agoYeah, one problem in Rust is that a number of very fundamental ecosystem libraries are written by a handful of high-profile people. Often people who are also working on the standard library or the Rust compiler. Rust developers usually know their names and SoMe handles. It's a problem because those people become overworked, and eventually have to abandon things. The deprecation of `serde_yaml` was and is a huge, huge problem, especially without any functional replacement. There was no call for new maintainers, or for someone to take over the project. I can understand the reasons why (now you're suddenly auditing people, not code), but it sucks.