Re:Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby
by inigyou on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:23AM
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What is Python?
Re:Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby
by whstl on Sunday July 19, 2026 @06:27AM
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It's probably both?
Started famously as batteries-included, until people started realizing there's money in dependencies.
I'm not a lot into Python, though. I still write a lot of it, but I don't really read or participate in its community.
Rust and Node have too many deps because you can't make a Patreon or Github Sponsors page for contributions to stdlib.
Go is batteries-included because it was made by Google by people with a salary.
The people writing "thousands of small packages are good" are the people making money from the clout of having made thousands of small packages.