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What are you talking about? I don't get people making these posts without any detail whatsoever as to what they're talking about. I have a fully static binary

What are you talking about? I don't get people making these posts without any detail whatsoever as to what they're talking about. I have a fully static binary that includes futures, nix, tokio, uuid, and more. Even statically compiled with Muslims it's less than three megs. And if I didn't use the nix package for a setsockopt call, it would be perfectly capable of running on Windows (and I could easily make it cross platform if I wanted to invest the effort in adding Windows support). Further, there are an abundance of great resources out there for extremely painless cross compilation. So far I've not heard of problems with multiplat or bloat so I'm hoping you'll elaborate.

faragon 10y ago
There are more systems than POSIX and Windows. Also, even in popular Linux systems Rust is not even installable in a straightforward way (e.g. Ubuntu 15.10, my system), so go figure. Regarding Rust bloat, I don't know if has got any better recently, but it was crazy bloated in comparison to C.
- Manishearth 10y ago
  The bloat issues are (a) a constant overhead and (b) a matter of defaults. See https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executable-large.html#takeaway https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab... Rust statically links to libstd by default because it's not there as a dynamic lib on most platforms. On top of that, it links in jemalloc. This makes small Rust binaries look larger than they need to be. The overhead dwindles as you start looking at larger Rust programs. If you actually need to get rid of that overhead, the option is there, it's just not default. Addition to popular package managers is being worked on.
- crossroads1112 10y ago
  Do you not consider adding a PPA to be straightforward? Or downloading the rustup binary and simply running it?
colemickens 10y ago
(er, "Muslims" was auto-corrected from 'musl' and I didn't catch it until now, sorry)

faragon 10y ago

There are more systems than POSIX and Windows. Also, even in popular Linux systems Rust is not even installable in a straightforward way (e.g. Ubuntu 15.10, my system), so go figure. Regarding Rust bloat, I don't know if has got any better recently, but it was crazy bloated in comparison to C.

Manishearth 10y ago
The bloat issues are (a) a constant overhead and (b) a matter of defaults. See https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executable-large.html#takeaway https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab... Rust statically links to libstd by default because it's not there as a dynamic lib on most platforms. On top of that, it links in jemalloc. This makes small Rust binaries look larger than they need to be. The overhead dwindles as you start looking at larger Rust programs. If you actually need to get rid of that overhead, the option is there, it's just not default. Addition to popular package managers is being worked on.
crossroads1112 10y ago
Do you not consider adding a PPA to be straightforward? Or downloading the rustup binary and simply running it?

colemickens 10y ago

(er, "Muslims" was auto-corrected from 'musl' and I didn't catch it until now, sorry)