[koakuma-chan]

It depends on `image` which in turn depends on a number of crates to handle different file types. If you disable all `image` features, it only has like 5 dependencies left.

[staminade]

And all those 5 remaining dependencies have lots of dependencies of their own. What's your point?

[koakuma-chan]

> What's your point?

Just defending Rust.

> 5 remaining dependencies have lots of dependencies of their own.

Mostly well-known crates like rayon, crossbeam, tracing, etc.

[johnisgood]

You cannot defend Rust if this is reality.

Any Rust project I have ever compiled pulled in over 1000 dependencies. Recently it was Zed with its >2000 dependencies.

[koakuma-chan]

I think it's justified for Zed. It does a lot of things.

[rudedogg]

Zed isn’t special, I doubt Sublime Text has thousands of dependencies. It’s a language/culture problem.

Edit: Ghostty is a good counter-example that is open source. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/tree/main/pkg

[koakuma-chan]

Zed is closer to IntelliJ or VSCode than to Sublime Text.