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#takeaw

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.