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Wilfred Hughes

Sep 30, 2019 at 09:36

A discussion of different Rust libraries and the cost of using them (compile time, binary size). https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2019/08/21/rust-bloat.html

Thoughts on Rust bloat

I’m about to accept a PR that will increase druid’s compile time about 3x and its executable size almost 2x. In this case, I think the tradeoff is worth it (without localization, a GUI toolkit is strictly a toy), but the bloat makes me unhappy and I think there is room for improvement in the Rust ecosystem.