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> 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 d
by 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.