As pointed out by the author, people who care could already strip the debug info. C was created in a time when binary sizes used to be important for every prog

As pointed out by the author, people who care could already strip the debug info. C was created in a time when binary sizes used to be important for every program. These days, it only matters for a small subset of use cases. If anything, the fact that no one fixed it for this long is an indicator that it doesn't matter much for the kinds of things people typically build with rust. It's nice that there's a fix now, but would I care if Firefox or Chrome binary was 4MB bigger?