Comment by swiftcoder
13 hours ago
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.
It's still hundreds of functionalities that they have to maintain themselves instead of leveraging a much more battle tested stdlib.