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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 t

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