opam has plenty of libraries, we should not mix quantity with quality.
Also we don't need leftpad like libraries, which is the direction Rust seems to be going when I try some some basic application that has like 50 crate dependencies.
Rust is very difficult for most people, so do you think that this advantage outweighs that disadvantage? Is that really the only meaningful advantage if you’re not writing a driver or internet-facing compressor at scale?
You're greatly overrating how difficult Rust is. The wealth of high-quality software being written in it shows many people think it's worth the effort.
