alt Hacker Newsyou could just do that with Rust, right? you’re just saying cargo makes it too easy not to
I’m very tempted to go this direction myself with Rust, vendoring in and “maintaining” (using Claude Code to maintain) dependencies. or writing subsets of the crates I need myself and using those. the sprawl with Rust dependencies is concerning
Yes of course you could do this in Rust. It's just that every resource out there promotes the usage of Cargo, and sells this as an "improvement" over the old school way of managing dependencies manually.