[kouteiheika]

> The risk when it is too easy is that you suddenly pull half of the Internet into your project. In C++, the cost of having a dependency makes me choose carefully if I want a dependency or not, and if I do, if I want this particular dependency (Who develops it? Is it maintained? If it stops being maintained, can I easily move to an alternative, or could I take over maintenance? ...).

There is no such risk, as you're not playing a roulette. No one is pulling a gun to your head and forcing you to pull in hundreds of dependencies.

You can do exactly the same in Rust as you do in C++ and be conservative in what you use for dependencies. This is what I do, and it works great.

Now, that said, I agree that for the ecosystem as a whole this is a problem and people do tend to be too trigger happy when pulling in dependencies.

[palata]

I understand that you agree with my point, but you disliked my wording? :-)