My biggest issue with rust after two years is just as you highlight: the mod/crate divide is bad!
I want it to be easier to have more crates. The overhead of converting a module tree into a new crate is high. Modules get to have hierarchy, but crates end up being flat. Some of this is a direct result of the flat crate namespace.
A lot of the toil ends up coming from the need to muck with toml files and the fact that rust-analyzer can’t do it for me. I want to have refactoring tools to turn module trees into crates easily.
I feel like when I want to do that, I have to play this game of copying files then playing whack-a-mole until I get all the dependencies right. I wish dependencies were expressed in the code files themselves a la go. I think go did a really nice job with the packaging and dependency structure. It’s what I miss most.
I want it to be easier to have more crates. The overhead of converting a module tree into a new crate is high. Modules get to have hierarchy, but crates end up being flat. Some of this is a direct result of the flat crate namespace.
A lot of the toil ends up coming from the need to muck with toml files and the fact that rust-analyzer can’t do it for me. I want to have refactoring tools to turn module trees into crates easily.
I feel like when I want to do that, I have to play this game of copying files then playing whack-a-mole until I get all the dependencies right. I wish dependencies were expressed in the code files themselves a la go. I think go did a really nice job with the packaging and dependency structure. It’s what I miss most.