[rockdoe]

In C/C++ every project ends up with a hand coded replacement for those external dependencies that is less well written and infinitely less tested.

[infamouscow]

What about all of the projects where your assumptions are false?

[rockdoe]

Why would those need a lot of Rust dependencies then? If you want to hand-roll stuff, hand-roll! no_std is a thing because people use it.