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It can matter though; fwiw. I love Rust, but my "node_modules" in Rust is absolutely huge. Not a problem on Desktop, but because I am full-time Rust these days my next laptops have to have lots of storage. Gone are the days where I can have a small SSD in my laptop.

Fwiw though, even a 250MB node_modules would pale in comparison to my Rust version lol.

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> I love Rust, but my "node_modules" in Rust is absolutely huge.

Why does Rust need a node_modules folder?

It's not node_modules but it is the same concept, it's called target in Rust.

Keats is correct - I figured this is a JS discussion thread so rather than say my target folder, I'd use "node_modules" for familiarity. I should have probably explained that. A bit of verboseness would have saved more verbose comments haha.

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