I hope that whatever solutions we come up with to handle the too-many-dependencies problem don’t stifle people’s motivation to create and share new packages. It’s not a given that useful libraries are going to exist. Too much friction and people will just stop sharing code.
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Umm, my experience from the sidelines is that regex, clap, tokio and serde are toxic. I haven't really heard of the others (I said sidelines).
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If they could be more self contained and fewer copies of common deps it would be nice.
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I need to check out the newly released clap/structopt v3. I did have some things to say about the previous versions of clap/structopt (as someone who's been using clap since 2016) in this blog post:https://iqlusion.blog/introducing-abscissa-rust-application-framework#crates-we-didn39t-use-but-are-still-awesome-a_2 …
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I might consider switching Abscissa to use clap/structopt v3, but in the meantime, gumdrop has served us well, with fewer dependencies, and IMO a less wonky proc macro DSL. structopt felt to me like proc macros retrofitted as an afterthought.
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