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I could not imagine running rustc on a Rust program, let alone building a 200-crate dependency graph or all of rustc, on a 2000s car entertainment system microc

• capableweb 4y ago
  What you are programming would change, just like what you're programming with would change. The projects who use 200-something crates are building desktop applications or something like that. What we'd program if we only have microcontrollers available, would be much smaller in scope, maybe a lot of focus on controlling physical infrastructure for agriculture and such.
  • karelpeeters 4y ago
    They're talking about the fact that recompiling the rustc compiler itself is very complex and resource intentisive. That may not actually be a problem though, since the current compiler executable is already good enough for almost any project.
• m3talsmith 4y ago
  Exactly. Rust is actually a loser in this due to the lack of a fleshed out stdlib.