The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem

I really miss the old days, when any program I wrote only had to trust three things out of my control: the compiler, the relatively small runtime library I linked with, and the few simple O/S entrypoints I called. I could probably breakpoint my way through every possible byte of code within a day or two.

Now I can't seem to write anything that doesn't generate hundreds of megabytes from untold number of dependencies nested who knows how deep that would take me a lifetime to fully explore.

Sigh.