1. I definitely want to use third-party libraries, so I don't have to re-invent the wheel
2. I hate having to install and manage third-party libraries on all systems where I might want to run something.
After using golang and rust, it's really painful to go back.
I feel the same way. Rust is pretty bad in this sense because you have to install an entire third party compiler and toolchain from outside of your repositories. Usually recommend in the form of,
>curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
And if you don't install the third party rustc from out of repos your rustc is only able to compile code written $now till about $now + 3 months. After using perl it was really painful to try to compile random rust code I found. It's not that it's impossible to write forwards compatible rust, it's just that rust devs are mostly hostile towards it. Reactions to this comment will be, "3 months is too old to expect things to compile. You're holding back progress." And that's a legit POV. But one I'm glad Perl doesn't share.
Likewise I've found CPAN to usually get out of my way… but at least in FreeBSD land I've not had to fight perl packages too much. And I've definitely been missing having Perl in the FreeBSD base system recently.
And if you don't install the third party rustc from out of repos your rustc
is only able to compile code written $now till about $now + 3 months.