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Rust seems to be the biggest joke of all time. Calling itself systems language when the average hello world program is 4 MB (!) in size. Also when I tried to co

by sprash 8y ago

Rust seems to be the biggest joke of all time. Calling itself systems language when the average hello world program is 4 MB (!) in size. Also when I tried to compile a rather low complexity example with 80 lines of code the compiler ran out of RAM. Seriously? The reason Rust was invented was to make the monolithic firefox executable to have multiple tabs that don't block each other and can act concurrently. All of this has already been solved in a much cheaper and already available way: Unix processes.

steveklabnik 8y ago
The size of hello world has dropped considerably in the last release now that we no longer bundle jemalloc. The smallest Rust binary ever produced was 145 bytes; you can have small binaries if that’s what you need, hello world and default settings are not optimized for tiny ones. How much RAM did the machine have? (Oh, and you’re wrong about the Firefox thing as well.)