Comment by pessimizer
1 year ago
Agreed, the dependency list looks extremely boring and completely auditable to me.
The dependencies are modular, not diffuse.
I think people saw the title, and got triggered into hate. When actually, this seems author-submitted, and they were probably just trying to be humble about their accomplishment. It's not even the title of the article.
> they were probably just trying to be humble about their accomplishment
Thanks for your reply. To be honest, I simply recognize that depending on open-source software a trivial choice. Any non-trivial Rust project can pull in hundreds of dependencies and even when you audit distributed system written in C++/Java, it's a common case.
For example, Cloudflare's pingora has more than 400 dependencies. Other databases written in Rust, e.g., Databend and Materialize, have more than 1000 dependencies in the lockfile. TiKV has more than 700 dependencies.
People seem to jump in the debt of the number of dependencies or blame why you close the source code, ignoring the purpose that I'd like to show how you can organically contribute to the open-source ecosystem during your DAYJOB, and this is a way to write open-source code sustainable.