Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat
by stouset on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:09PM
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Virtually no modern language or package system requires this. All of them allow you to cache dependencies locally, so they can be committed to version control or otherwise put in place during deployment however you see fit.
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Maybe I didn't communicate my point clearly. I cannot just go out and get whatever dependencies I want to use. It isn't possible. What I have on the system is what I've got, and I can't add anything. I cannot put the dependencies on the system by any means.
Thus a lot of things get done in Python and Java, because of the ample standard libraries. I was able, after a year of lobbying and procedures and approvals, to get a Rust compiler, but there is zero chance of me ever getting anything off crates.io.