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I tried building a Rust project and it failed because it consumed my entire remaining 8 GB of disk space... Good old NPM.

I tried running a Python project and the necessary apt-get pulled 2 GB of dependencies and conflicted with some of software I use, that's before running the pip install... Good old NPM.

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There are two issues: dep bloat and “hermeticity” if you will. Cargo is quite nice and projects build in a straight forward way. However, the Rust ecosystem sucks in terms of dep bloat, imo. And the compiler artifacts are large. Python not sure, but I thought you had a way to get hermetic environments?

Go stands out as being fast, small and very limited dep bloat, thanks to a comprehensive standard library. And very minimal config files. By that standard npm is a shit show.

Python is a mess with dependencies.

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