I love the language, but I'm still not convinced by Rust's skinny stdlib approach. I appreciate not wanting to end up like python where they're having to remove stuff from the stdlib because it has too many batteries and bitrot is a problem, but there's surely a happy-medium somewhere along the line.

I don't write much Go but it seems like it has a good balance when I do.

It may be a bad example, but even in rust generating a random number involves pulling in 6ish crates

   └── rand v0.10.3
    ├── chacha20 v0.10.2
    │   ├── cfg-if v1.0.5
    │   └── rand_core v0.10.1
    ├── getrandom v0.4.3
    │   ├── cfg-if v1.0.5
    │   ├── libc v0.2.191
    │   └── rand_core v0.10.1
    └── rand_core v0.10.1