it has to be done at some point. I still have vcpkg on my Windows machine, because I needed to install it and a few GB of other things, just to use PostgreSQL in Rust a few years ago (I think Diesel).
If someone hadn't implemented the libpq protocol in Rust, I likely wouldn't have written in binary copy support on the dataframe in one afternoon.
This reduces the barrier for people to productively use their favourite languages. It might be unproductive at first, but we see the benefits as time goes on.
> This reduces the barrier for people to productively use their favourite languages. It might be unproductive at first, but we see the benefits as time goes on.
It is vastly unproductive to reproduce anything useful in 10 different language just because our cross-language tooling awfuly suxxe.
The lack of cross-language dev-oriented lead us in the ridiculous situation where every language has its own package manager and his completely unable to use a package made for an other language.
There is reasons to that... but much more political than technical and that's the sad state we are in.
If someone hadn't implemented the libpq protocol in Rust, I likely wouldn't have written in binary copy support on the dataframe in one afternoon.
This reduces the barrier for people to productively use their favourite languages. It might be unproductive at first, but we see the benefits as time goes on.