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I’ve seen a lot of complaints about this. I would love some insights into the author’s intentions, though. Why did they choose binary distribution? They must ha

by rcme 3y ago

I’ve seen a lot of complaints about this. I would love some insights into the author’s intentions, though. Why did they choose binary distribution? They must have had a reason.

kzrdude 3y ago
It makes a lot of users's crates faster to compile from scratch, and compile time is a common complaint in Rust. It could be celebrated as a big total ecosystem win for compilation speed, but other issues overshadowed the whole thing. Some gains and losses are elaborated here where it was added: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/pull/2514 https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/pull/2514