[sitta]

I recently wrote an extremely basic Rust web service using Axum. It had 10 direct dependencies for a total of 121 resolved dependencies. I later rewrote the service in Java using Jetty. It had 3 direct dependencies for a total of 7 resolved dependencies. Absolutely nuts.

[panstromek]

I don't think number of dependencies is a useful comparison metric here. Java runtime already implements stuff that you have to use libraries for in Rust, and it's a design choice. Rust also has slimmer std. Both languages have different constraints for this.