Comment by lanstin
3 hours ago
yeah, vendor in is the only way to stay sane over time, if you understand the cost of dependencies (and have a reasonable security model). And forking some Python or Go dep on Github and using that instead of the canonical one is pretty ergonomic. I don't know how Rust folks manage with so many dependencies via Cargo - my friend who loves Rust says they are smaller and more "one thing done well" but the complexity of hundreds or thousands of deps just scares me.
My number one problem with Rust (which I otherwise like) is that Cargo allows build-time code execution so I need to run in a sandbox (unergonomic for me) or provide agent instructions to inspect `build.rs` style code in libraries etc. prior to compile. In practice it's easy to build and then ship a dev binary into a sandbox, but it's not so pleasant to build in a sandbox, so I don't want to get build-time pwned. Makes me very unhappy.
Right now, I just have a build server that I ship things to and does lots of build-caching etc. so it's fine, but I would have preferred not to have a system that actively allows build-time thievery of my ~/.ssh