> the project folder takes multiple gigabytes even for small-ish projects This is a workaround but you can specify a global directory for all those artifacts w

> the project folder takes multiple gigabytes even for small-ish projects This is a workaround but you can specify a global directory for all those artifacts with the env var CARGO_TARGET. This will deduplicate common dependency versions and lets you stick it in a temp disk/exclude from backups.