amazonka VS hyper

This is perhaps not as obvious as it could be. A penny for your thoughts? https://github.com/brendanhay/amazonka/issues/968

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Stack does not clone a copy of a git package for each of a user's projects that uses the package but cabal does. This can be a deal-breaker for cabal when using huge git projects like https://github.com/brendanhay/amazonka that can take forever to git clone. If you have a test/CI setup for a project that uses such packages, cabal's lack of caching can also cause huge delays and more opportunities for failure (from network errors or timeouts). From the proceedings of past issues, I don't think cabal devs are interested in addressing this use case. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/5586

amazonka is a bit of a minefield despite being listed as the only AWS library by SOTU

> If you are equally picky and constrain yourself to parts of the ecosystem which care about binary size, you still have more options and can avoid size issues.

What's an example of this for, say, libcurl? On my system it has a tiny number of recursive dependencies, around a dozen. [0] Furthermore if I want to write a C program that uses libcurl I have to download zero bytes of data ... because it's a shared library that is already installed on my system, since so many programs already use it.

I don't really know the appropriate comparison for Rust. reqwest seems roughly comparable, but it's an HTTP client library, and not a general purpose network client like curl. Obviously curl can do a lot more. Even the list of direct dependencies for reqwest is quite long [1], and it's built on top of another http library [2] that has its own long list of dependencies, a list that includes tokio, no small library itself.

In terms of final binary size, the installed size of the curl package on my system, which includes both the command line tool and development dependencies for libcurl, is 1875.03 KiB.

[0] I'm excluding the dependency on the ca-certificates package, since this only provides the certificate chain for TLS and lots of programs rely on it.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/reqwest/0.11.24/dependencies

[2] https://crates.io/crates/hyper/0.14.28/dependencies

hyper-based HTTP server generating JSON responses. Written in Rust.

tokio / hyper / toml / serde / serde_json / json5 / console

Using Rust here was immensely helpful, using libraries made by the community like https://github.com/hyperium/hyper really powered up the development of Signway, so glad to see this kind of awesome crates made public. Hope that it continues to be like that despite the current controversies.

- Discord sends a slightly weird request by specifying content length (a bug in hyper we've not yet upgraded to fix, https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/commit/fb90d30c02d8f7cdc9a643597d5c4ca7a123f3dd)