[patrick451]

Yeah, this is something that bugs me about the rust ecosystem. Just to use a random number generator you need to pull in like 15 dependencies. In just a simple learning project that would have had about 1 dependency in c++, I ended up with like 75 for rust. I guess I'm old, but that seems like madness. Cargo being easy and simple is not all upside.

[steveklabnik]

If you just want random numbers, the getrandom crate has only three direct dependencies, one of which is the libc library bindings. I’d you don’t need everything that’s in rand, you don’t have to use rand.