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    1. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 6 Sep 2019
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      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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    2. Andrew Gallant‏ @burntsushi5 7 Sep 2019
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      The C way of dealing with dependencies and the Node way of dealing with dependencies are extremes. I don't want to be in either. My sense is that we are heading towards the Node extreme without thinking too critically about it. Some pressure against that heading seems healthy!

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    3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 7 Sep 2019
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      I think it is an issue that’s on a lot of people’s minds, and it is worth thinking about. I just don’t want the cure to be worse than the disease.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 7 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @pcwalton @burntsushi5

      We’re already starting to see Rust libraries advertise few dependencies, so I don’t necessarily agree that we aren’t thinking critically about the problem.

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        2. Andrew Gallant‏ @burntsushi5 7 Sep 2019
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          My sense is that is only a recent development, and it has only come up because people are starting to make noise about it. IMO anyway. We need to keep encouraging folks to think critically about bringing in dependencies.

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        3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 7 Sep 2019
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          It really depends, though. In the Pathfinder library I’ve tried to avoid use of mandatory dependencies—that’s why it’s split up into so many crates so that you don’t get e.g. SVG parsing unless you need it. But the examples use tons of dependencies, because they’re examples.

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        1. ᴋᴏɴ 1.45.await‏ @GolDDranks 7 Sep 2019
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          I'd very much like to be better automated detection API breaking changes and how that reflects to semver, reviewing and signing code with crev and "const fn only" deps to be a thing. In my mind, those three would make it a lot more manageable.

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