Fast Rust Builds
I tried again to use rust for something the other day.  Just wanted to fetch some things via http.  Nothing fancy, didn't even really care about the response body, just the timings.<p>Consensus seemed to be that reqwest is the way to do this using rust, since the stdlib does not include an http client.<p>Adding the dependency on reqwest tried to pull in over 100 dependencies and after building for a while, it failed somewhere along the way because my rust version was too old.  Now, maybe some of these were optional dependencies, but they all got pulled in automatically.<p>so, when TFA says<p>> Another obvious advice is to use fewer, smaller dependencies.<p>I just went back to go, which can do the crazy obscure task of making an http request without requiring 100 external dependencies.