Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface.
  • BB_C@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Not cargo per se, but even the tutorial for a cli-tool is like “setup clap, which has 20 dependencies and a kitchen sink”. The whole (cargo-centric) ecosystem is much like Node, with the same problems.

    cargo new with-clap
cd with-clap
cargo add clap --no-default-features

    % cargo tree
with-clap v0.1.0 (/tmp/with-clap)
└── clap v4.6.0
    └── clap_builder v4.6.0
        ├── anstyle v1.0.14
        └── clap_lex v1.1.0

    And also, cargo.toml has inconsistencies and double-standards.

    Can you expand on that?