Similar feeling here.
Cargo makes it so simple to add tons of dependencies that it is really hard not to do it. But that does not stop here: even if I try to be careful with adding dependencies, a couple dependencies are likely to pull tens of transitive dependencies each.
"Then don't depend on them", you say. Sure, but that means I won't write my project, because I won't write those things from scratch. I could probably audit the dependency (if it wasn't pulling 50 packages itself), but I can't reasonably write it myself.
It is different with C++: I can often find dependencies that don't pull tens of transitive dependencies in C++. Maybe because it's harder to add dependencies, maybe because the ecosystem is more mature, I don't know.
But it feels like the philosophy in Rust is to pull many small packages, so it doesn't seem like it will change. And that's a pity, because I like Rust-the-language better than C++-the-language. It just feels like I trade "it's not memory-safe" for "you have to pull tons of random code from the Internet".
Cargo makes it so simple to add tons of dependencies that it is really hard not to do it. But that does not stop here: even if I try to be careful with adding dependencies, a couple dependencies are likely to pull tens of transitive dependencies each.
"Then don't depend on them", you say. Sure, but that means I won't write my project, because I won't write those things from scratch. I could probably audit the dependency (if it wasn't pulling 50 packages itself), but I can't reasonably write it myself.
It is different with C++: I can often find dependencies that don't pull tens of transitive dependencies in C++. Maybe because it's harder to add dependencies, maybe because the ecosystem is more mature, I don't know.
But it feels like the philosophy in Rust is to pull many small packages, so it doesn't seem like it will change. And that's a pity, because I like Rust-the-language better than C++-the-language. It just feels like I trade "it's not memory-safe" for "you have to pull tons of random code from the Internet".