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		hedora on May 10, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me Historically, the borrow checker has been a good shield against developers that have no taste. Not sure how long that’ll last.

lionkor on May 10, 2025 | [–]

Not really, there are plenty of large libraries today that were designed by complete boneheads. Granted, you only notice if you know that domain very well.

devnullbrain on May 11, 2025 | | [–]

Dynamically typed languages do the opposite.

bsaul on May 10, 2025 | [–]

macro seems to compensate for that. there's definitely a "C++ template programming" vibe in some libraries.

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