There was a post on Reddit from 2019 that I loved to link to which was about how the poster rewrote a NodeJS service into Rust.
The original was taken down in response to Reddit enshittifying, but it’s still up on the wayback machine and the graphs were hosted on Imgur, where they’re still up without needing the Wayback machine:
I know what they mean. It may not be enormous, functionality-wise, but just the
Iterator
trait alone feels enormous when you’re trying to figure out which method does what you want.I think it’s indicative of a need for more work put into making the UI teach people how to search by function signature.