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you could just do that with Rust, right? you’re just saying cargo makes it too easy not to

I’m very tempted to go this direction myself with Rust, vendoring in and “maintaining” (using Claude Code to maintain) dependencies. or writing subsets of the crates I need myself and using those. the sprawl with Rust dependencies is concerning

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Yes of course you could do this in Rust. It's just that every resource out there promotes the usage of Cargo, and sells this as an "improvement" over the old school way of managing dependencies manually.

Cargo will let you vendor code into your repo easily.

I think you’re conflating the tool, with how people manage deps.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-vendor.html

it's mainly an improvement because the rust ecosystem has a standardized way to build and distribute packages, so you can reliably add a dependency without build system pain. If you don't think having a reference to a central repo is a good way to go, you can vendor or even just pin your dependencies.

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