Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

Rust Dependencies Scare Me I do not pretend to have more experience or understanding than the top level engineers I often see writing blogs here, but what I am is annoyed. I love rust. It's by far my favorite language, I enjoy the community and the language ergonomics. I've been able to incorporate it into projects in my day job where fit. Rust's dependencies are starting to worry me. For those who don't code in Rust, Rust provides an ecosystem of crates through crates.io, allowing users to helpfully install them with the command cargo add, or by simply adding the requested crate and version to the Cargo.toml file. This paradigm is similar to NPM for nodejs. The Good Cargo is helpful and a huge productivity booster, ensuring I don't have to hunt around and link files myself with something like CMake. This also allows me to swap between architectures and operating systems pretty frequently, mainly my M1 macbook air and my x86 Debian desktop. In general I don't have to think much abo ... Read full article.