If you read the article you would know that this is just about changing defaults. You already could achieve this by editing your project's Cargo.toml. As is doc

If you read the article you would know that this is just about changing defaults. You already could achieve this by editing your project's Cargo.toml. As is documented and discussed in several places over the years (google "shrink rust binary size"). The `strip` was added to rust nightly in 2020. 1: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust 2: https://kerkour.com/optimize-rust-binary-size https://kerkour.com/optimize-rust-binary-size 3: https://rustrepo.com/repo/johnthagen-min-sized-rust https://rustrepo.com/repo/johnthagen-min-sized-rust 4: https://sing.stanford.edu/site/publications/rust-lctes22.pdf https://sing.stanford.edu/site/publications/rust-lctes22.pdf 5: https://arusahni.net/blog/2020/03/optimizing-rust-binary-size.html https://arusahni.net/blog/2020/03/optimizing-rust-binary-siz...