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Don't they? I just went to crates.io and picked a random newly updated crate, which happened to be pixelfix, which fixes transparent pixels in pngs. It has si

• koakuma-chan 1y ago
  It depends on `image` which in turn depends on a number of crates to handle different file types. If you disable all `image` features, it only has like 5 dependencies left.
  • staminade 1y ago
    And all those 5 remaining dependencies have lots of dependencies of their own. What's your point?
    • koakuma-chan 1y ago
      > What's your point? Just defending Rust. > 5 remaining dependencies have lots of dependencies of their own. Mostly well-known crates like rayon, crossbeam, tracing, etc.
      • johnisgood 1y ago
        You cannot defend Rust if this is reality. Any Rust project I have ever compiled pulled in over 1000 dependencies. Recently it was Zed with its >2000 dependencies.
        • koakuma-chan 1y ago
          I think it's justified for Zed. It does a lot of things.
          • rudedogg 1y ago
            Zed isn’t special, I doubt Sublime Text has thousands of dependencies. It’s a language/culture problem. Edit: Ghostty is a good counter-example that is open source. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/tree/main/pkg https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/tree/main/pkg
            • koakuma-chan 1y ago
              Zed is closer to IntelliJ or VSCode than to Sublime Text.
              • biggusdickus69 1y ago
                In the amount of bloat, yes.
                • johnisgood 1y ago
                  It is also important to note that this is not specific to Zed. As someone else have mentioned, it is a cultural problem. I picked Zed as an example because that is what I compiled the last time, but it is definitely not limited to Zed. There are many Rust projects that pull in over 1000 dependencies and they do much less than Zed.
                  • koakuma-chan 1y ago
                    Yeah tbh one time I had a Rust job and their back-end had like 700-800 dependencies.