alt Hacker NewsIt is fundamentally difficult to have an “ecosystem”.
Would much rather see a bunch of libraries that implement everything for a given use case like web-dev, embedded etc.
Unfortunately this is hard to do in rust because it is hard to implement the low level primitives.
Language’s goal should be to make building things easier imo. It should be simple to build a serde or a tokio.
From what I have seen in rust, people tend to over-engineer a single library to the absolute limit instead just building a bunch of libraries and moving on.
As an example, if it is easy to build a btreemap then you don’t have to have a bunch of traits from a bunch of different libraries pre-implemented on it. You can just copy it, adapt it a bit and move on.
Then you can have a complete thing that gives you everything you need to write a web server and it just works
So what I mean is, having a big library that implements the whole problem is better. Because then each part of that library is simple. Then I can copy paste some parts and change some others to create an alternative library. And it is better for the user of the thing because it is simple.
Having everything compatible with everything else and having everything implement every case means every individual part is over-complicated. So it is bad no matter how you combine it together.