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Just please let us not end up with something like Node.js where we use a crate that has <10 LOC. Irks me. And if Rust ends up like that, I will never switch. It

Just please let us not end up with something like Node.js where we use a crate that has <10 LOC. Irks me. And if Rust ends up like that, I will never switch. It already builds ~50 crates for medium-sized projects.

Expurple 1y ago
Rust crates usually have "feature flags" [1] that help with dependency bloat. You only pull in the parts of the dependency tree that you actually use, even if the crates that you use can be configured to provide more features and pull more dependencies. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html
- pjmlp 1y ago
  Also a reason why some crates get compiled multiple times, making the compile times even more of a pain, when they happen to be referenced multiple times with different configurations.
  - Expurple 1y ago
    True, but this is being worked on now: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14774 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14774
    - pjmlp 1y ago
      Last update was almost a year ago, hardly being worked on.
      - Expurple 1y ago
        What do you mean? At the bottom of the page, the latest update is a pull request that was opened 10 days ago: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/15684 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/15684