When I am compiling Rust applications, I must admit I'm always rather bemused at the number of dependencies pulled. Even what I'd have thought to be simple tools reach easily about 200 dependent packages. It's nightmarish. One way this becomes particularly apparent is if you're trying to create a reproducible package for Guix or Nix. You end up having to manually specify a package for every different Rust library because of how those system require reproducible builds. The process of writing Guix package for software has been extremely illuminating for me, as to just how deeply nested certain technologies are vs. others. I'd be willing to bet it's a good metric for what sticks around. If you've got 200 dependencies, I don't think your software is gonna last the test of time. It seems a recipe for endless churn.