Comment by swiftcoder
15 hours ago
> in practice rust projects tend to have hundreds of deps
That's really just any language with a built-in package manager. Go somewhat sidesteps this by making you vendor your dependencies, but very few other languages escape the ballooning dependency graph.
Go has probably more packages than Rust, but i rarely see Go projects that use as many as rust. In Go the usuals are depending on the app, possibly some db drivers, a simple router and maybe some crypto related thing. Most projects do fine with just the stdlib. In rust i tend to see 100 deps, and 1000 transient deps. Compile times are not in seconds, but minutes.
You can do that just fine in Rust too, for example the Makepad[1] developers take a pretty extreme non-invented-here stance, and builds a full UI toolkit with no external dependencies (and a major focus on clean-build compile times).
However, it isn't really part of the Rust OSS culture to operate like that. The culture typically values safety over compile times, and prefers to lean on a deep stable of battle-hardened abstractions.
[1]: https://makepad.nl, https://github.com/makepad/makepad
It's still hundreds of functionalities that they have to maintain themselves instead of leveraging a much more battle tested stdlib.