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Sure you can. Just reject any dependencies that don't pass your own linter. By switching to rust, you are doing the same thing anyway.

But with Rust you will get a whole ecosystem working. In your method you will get 0 dependencies working, no?

Same as the Rust ecosystem a few years ago.

And not the same as the Rust ecosystem today.

If the rust people took your attitude a few years ago, where would they be today?

They would hopefully have realized that Rust is a much better language than C++ and not taken that attitude.

Is the assumption here that you're recompiling and statically linking all of your dependencies?