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Why would you think rust will make the web sing? Their HTML documentation generator uses 571+ dependencies. So, hello more bloat! If the core rust team can't avoid it why would you think any other rust project would?

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Why would an HTML generator need to slim down on dependencies? It's designed to run in CI, not respond in real time to user requests. It very infrequently runs and generates production artifacts with humans out of the loop.

This is a bad argument against Rust in the frontend.

Web frontend development is very nascent in Rust, but there's already cool stuff taking shape:

- https://www.egui.rs/

- https://leptos.dev/

You’re both right. It’s not as important that a documentation generator be blazing fast, but it’s a bad sign. If the core team finds themselves using 571 dependencies for something as simple as a documentation generator, how many thousands of dependencies will the average small business, trying to deliver value to customers quickly, end up using to create a line-of-business web app?

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