> This is something I've only ever seen cargo do. npm does this (which causes [caused?] the node_modules directory to have a megazillion of files usually, but

> This is something I've only ever seen cargo do. npm does this (which causes [caused?] the node_modules directory to have a megazillion of files usually, but sometimes "hoisting" common dependencies helps, and there's Yarn's PnP [which hooks into Node's require() and keeps packages as ZIPs], and pnpm uses symlinks/hardlinks)