Comment by nu11ptr
3 days ago
And that leads to dependency hell once you realize that those dependencies all need different versions of the same crate. Most of the time this "just works" (at the cost of more dependencies, longer compile time, bigger binary)... until it doesn't then it can be tough to figure out.
In general, I like cargo a lot better than the Go tooling, but I do wish the Rust stdlib was a bit more "batteries included".
I feel like Rust could have added commonly used stuff as extensions and provided separate builds that have them baked in for those that want to avoid dependency hell while still providing the standard builds like they currently do. Sure the versions would diverge somewhat but not sure how big of a problem that would be.