alt Hacker NewsEvery cargo install (rust) I've down downloads 300 to 700 packages
Every C++ app I install in linux requires 250 packages
Every python app I install and then pip install requirements uses 150 packages.
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A while ago I started a game project in Rust using one of the popular engines.
10GB of build artifacts for the debug target.
I wouldn't say every Rust app does, but I do think it has become more normal for Rust apps to have 200-600 dependencies. However when I look at the list, they usually all make sense, unlike with NPM. There are rarely any one-line crates. Actually I haven't seen any yet (except joke ones of course).
There's no way the average C++ app uses 250 packages though. It's usually more like 5. C++ packaging is a huge pain so people tend to use them only when absolutely necessary, and you get huge libraries like Boost primarily because of the packaging difficulty.
I would say Python varies but 150 sounds high. Something more like 50-100 is typical in my experience.
This is not true at all.