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It's now whataboutism. It's finger pointing from a lot of people who develop in languages whose story is only marginally better.

As I wrote in a sibling comment, I have a project I haven't even started yet in Rust [1]. And it's measly 6 dependencies pull a total of 197.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22841742




I took a look, this sounds more unique to Rust than Go or Python, but they all can do it to some degree. I have no hands on experience with Rust to really have any reasonable input on this so I don’t want to make an uninformed statement.


If what you say is true, then Rust is suffering the same fate.

197 dependencies is too many to trust.




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