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Maybe give crates a gold star if they have no external dependencies?

• sdenton4 4mo ago
  That's not at all a bad idea, imo. And a silver star for crates which only depend on gold star crates...
• mmastrac 4mo ago
  It's hard to have zero deps - I put many hours into one to have no required deps in the end but it was not easy, and writing declarative macros to do anything complex takes work (and a proc macro often means a minimum of two crates). Both of the crates it requires are part of the same project, however. One of my other crates (getaddrinfo) requires windows-sys and libc which would be challenging to get rid of. I like the idea of low deps but zero is tough https://crates.io/crates/ctor/1.0.4/dependencies https://crates.io/crates/ctor/1.0.4/dependencies
  • hacker_homie 4mo ago
    That’s because you are not moving thing into the standard library :)
• rcxdude 4mo ago
  This only encourages rewriting perfectly fine libraries badly. There's no simple metric to actually optimize here.