@khinsen Won't lie- I was low-key annoyed yesterday when my desire to generate a random number in Rust brought something like 17 dependencies into my project. WTF?!?

@khinsen Actually, "annoyed" isn't the proper word. It's more like "embarrassed." I'm embarrassed for myself for having to resort to using such a dependency. I'm also embarrassed for the devs of that package. I get it. Random numbers are trickier than they look. I've been around a long time and know about that. But 17 dependencies? To do what?!? Come on.

@khinsen Sure, but why can't there be a nice single-file Rust version? (Maybe there is, but I need to search harder).

@dabeaz Translate the C code to Rust and publish it!

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@khinsen

This looks like a nice blog post about it. Apparently you can turn off default features of rand to shrink it down a lot already, didn't know that:

https://blog.orhun.dev/zero-deps-random-in-rust/

@faassen @dabeaz @khinsen Unfortunately for me, this is a perfect example of why you should just look for the smallest crate which does the job you want to do; there's a lot of energy wasted re-inventing a wheel.

@khleedril @faassen @khinsen Agree. I'm not sure I'd follow much of anything from that blog post except to look a bit further into the `fastrand` crate. Maybe I'd call out to drand48 in C.

@khinsen Don't tempt me...