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Having it written and distributed in Rust kind of defeats the whole “compact” sales pitch, as you now have to download a couple gigabytes to try it out...
by jiofih 6y ago
Having it written and distributed in Rust kind of defeats the whole “compact” sales pitch, as you now have to download a couple gigabytes to try it out...
- kroltan 6y ago> you now have to download a couple gigabytes You... don't? Default installation size of the Rust toolchain is about 800mb extracted to disk, way less so of downloading. Hardly an inordinate filesize for a development toolchain. For example, MSYS is 950mb just for the C++ toolchain. You might shave a lot on Linux thanks to package reuse, but "conceptually" it would be about the same size, just that in practice you start with some parts downloaded.
- steveklabnik 6y agoThey may be referring to the Windows MSVC target, where you have to install the C++ build tools to get access to link.exe. ... that being said, if they distributed a binary, you wouldn’t need any of that, too.