Comment by traceroute66
16 hours ago
> No real stdlib? What are you talking about?
I'm not rising to that bait. I'm sure you know perfectly well what I mean.
So let's just be polite, cordial and leave that topic there there. I'm sure you know its a topic that attracts 'strong views', particularly from the Rust side, which is no doubt why you're trying to engage on it.
I honestly don't. It was a real question.
The only times I had to use third party packages for basic stuff, was when developing embedded software on limited hardware.
Do you mean that for async we need third party runtimes like tokyo? Or that types and utilities that many other languages ship by default in stdlib, like http aren't in rusts?
I'm sorry for the tone of my post. It was meant as honest surprise, but I clearly see now how it sounds baity and provoking.
This is the dependency list of the just command runner
https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/Cargo.lock
And the helix editor
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/Cargo.lock
Compare them to the dependencies of gnu make (pretty sure it’s only posix)
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/master/m...
And vim
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/master/c...
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Downloading the internet to build a smallish software is always bad in my opinion.