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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They infect otherwise reasonable software to make it unexpectedly large. Because of
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But would Rust be a better language if regex, clap, and serde did not exist? I think the answer is pretty clearly no.
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