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Oh cool, thanks for the summary. Maybe it's time I start to dabble... It'd be good to be able to deploy binaries without VMs/requiring a ton of dependencies to

by estefan 11y ago

Oh cool, thanks for the summary. Maybe it's time I start to dabble... It'd be good to be able to deploy binaries without VMs/requiring a ton of dependencies to be preinstalled.

nbaksalyar 11y ago
Rust doesn't require a VM or any prerequisites installed on a target system. In this regard it's comparable to Go (though I'm not sure that it's viable to statically compile everything into one binary, but technically it should be possible). Anyway, it compiles down to the machine code, so at most you'll need to have a bunch of libraries along with your executable file. Hopefully you'll have a lot of fun with learning! :) Oh, and almost forgot: Rust community is one of the best that I've seen, so feel free to ask any questions on http://users.rust-lang.org http://users.rust-lang.org - I'm sure there's a lot of people who'll be glad to help you.
- steveklabnik 11y ago
  Small detail: most Rust programs do need glibc installed. Unless you've built with MUSL specifically.
  - kibwen 11y ago
    To elaborate, by default Rust programs are entirely statically linked (dynamic linking is available with a compiler flag), though with a single dynamic dependency on libc. This means you can compile ordinary Rust code into a single executable and run that executable on any machine with a compatible version of libc (which is fairly universally available, so not a problem in practice). If you want no dynamic dependencies whatsoever, then Rust supports linking to musl, which is an implementation of libc that's designed for static linking.
MrBuddyCasino 11y ago
In case your're into Linux systems programming, we had a talk recently that we filmed. Youtube & Github links here: http://www.meetup.com/rust-munich/events/224140986/?comment_table_id=456845889&comment_table_name=event_comment#comments-tab http://www.meetup.com/rust-munich/events/224140986/?comment_...

by estefan 11y ago

Oh cool, thanks for the summary. Maybe it's time I start to dabble... It'd be good to be able to deploy binaries without VMs/requiring a ton of dependencies to be preinstalled.

nbaksalyar 11y ago

Rust doesn't require a VM or any prerequisites installed on a target system. In this regard it's comparable to Go (though I'm not sure that it's viable to statically compile everything into one binary, but technically it should be possible). Anyway, it compiles down to the machine code, so at most you'll need to have a bunch of libraries along with your executable file. Hopefully you'll have a lot of fun with learning! :) Oh, and almost forgot: Rust community is one of the best that I've seen, so feel free to ask any questions on http://users.rust-lang.org http://users.rust-lang.org - I'm sure there's a lot of people who'll be glad to help you.

steveklabnik 11y ago
Small detail: most Rust programs do need glibc installed. Unless you've built with MUSL specifically.
- kibwen 11y ago
  To elaborate, by default Rust programs are entirely statically linked (dynamic linking is available with a compiler flag), though with a single dynamic dependency on libc. This means you can compile ordinary Rust code into a single executable and run that executable on any machine with a compatible version of libc (which is fairly universally available, so not a problem in practice). If you want no dynamic dependencies whatsoever, then Rust supports linking to musl, which is an implementation of libc that's designed for static linking.

MrBuddyCasino 11y ago

In case your're into Linux systems programming, we had a talk recently that we filmed. Youtube & Github links here: http://www.meetup.com/rust-munich/events/224140986/?comment_table_id=456845889&comment_table_name=event_comment#comments-tab http://www.meetup.com/rust-munich/events/224140986/?comment_...