This is what you get with package managers.

Looking at ureq [0], for example, its direct non-build/non-dev dependencies are (counting duplicates):

- base64

- flate2 (4 transitive dependencies)

- log

- percent-encoding

- rustls (26 transitive dependencies)

- rustls-pki-types (1 transitive dependency)

- ureq-proto (7 transitive dependencies)

- utf-8

- webpki-roots (2 transitive dependencies)

The vast majority of the raw dependency count comes from Rustls and related crates, and I'd imagine reimplementing a TLS stack would be somewhat out of scope for an HTTP crate. I'm not sure there's much room for substantial reductions in dependency count otherwise.

[0]: https://github.com/algesten/ureq

Insisting that you should depend on code which itself has no dependencies is a bit hypocritical if you ask me. If you want a simple HTTP crate that doesn't have dependencies, you should follow your own philosophy of not using other crates and write it yourself.

For example, I remember talking that with you at the Rust Fest 2017, in Zurich actually, especially about the *very early version* of Async/Await.

It is ok for the community to move on different directions than the first one, and I don't blame any of you for that.

I recall the opposite, that the rust language (before the foundation) position was that being apolitical was a political stance. This is not the exact message I remember https://x.com/rustlang/status/1267519582505512960 and also can't realistically cover the entire community at large, as if that even has a single political stance.

I think there is a reasonable argument that the default for a community with technical goals should be to accept social status quo conventions unless they conflict with the communities technical goals. But if the social default is "girls don't code and queers should hide" there is a reasonable counterargument that these conflict with the goal of making the technology (and community) available to everyone.

No it's not.

I'm an LGBT person with a trans partner and I find many codes of conduct to be chastising and purposefully finger pointing to conservative people.

A lot of them are basically, "your religious teachings or cultural upbringing aren't welcome here"

I don't agree with religious texts, but that's what you're wagging in their face with some of the CoCs.

Leave it at "don't be an asshole". It's that simple.

The current political climate, I feel, is a direct reaction to this.

A politically neutral space wouldn't permit religious people to harass trans or LGBT people, but it also wouldn't give anyone latitude to throw stones the other way either.

CoCs are "you're not welcome here at all".

Another thing: you always see language and project logos modified to bear the rainbow, trans, and BLM colors. You never see anything supporting Asians, white people, men, or Christians. If you did this, you would be called out as a racist. Which is so ironic.

Let's just get along and work together. Maybe we'll find more agreements amongst ourselves that way instead of trying to divide everyone into camps.

Some progressives are going to get very pissed off at this comment, but I grew up and live in the South. You can (and often must) work with people you don't agree with. It's not impossible to be friends either. You might wind up changing their mind, and they might wind up making you more tolerant as well.