My comment had nothing to do with Javascript.

Rust may not have "left pad" type micro-dependencies, but it definitely has a dependency culture. Looking at `cargo tree` for the medium size project I'm working on, the deepest dependency branch goes to 12 layers deep. There's obviously a lot of duplicates - most dependency trees eventually end with the same few common libraries - but it does require work to audit those and understand their risk profile and code quality.

>Rust does not have a culture of "microdependencies"

It absolutely does by the C/C++ standards. Last time I checked the zed editor had 1000+ dependencies. That amount of crates usually results in at least 300-400 separately maintained projects by running 'cargo supply-chain'. This is an absurd number.