Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat
by heavenlyblue on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:15AM
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>> Even Raspberry Pis have many GBs of both disk and RAM and super fast USB, MicroSD, and network transfer speeds.
You are speaking about _latest_ Pis.
No I'm not. Pi 2 meets all of those requirements and has MicroSDHC which offer tons of high speed space even at entry level.
Besides that was an example, I have plenty of other IoT and embedded style hardware and they are all fitting this criteria.
Simply put the size of binaries has never been a real concern for some time now and the few rare cases where it might matter probably aren't worth all the effort made obsessing over sub 50mb bin size.
99%+ of it will be people who "feel" like it should be small, without any good reason.
I don't really see the difference between 5mb and 20mb bins. And I'm a fan of minimalist OS systems like Archlinux with a slim set of running services. Disk space isn't really the main concern besides as a symbolic measure of cruft. No system is ever going to fill up space by having too many OS/terminal programs installed.
But I also don't come from the nostalgic Unixy C programming world. Just a Unix user. So I may be biased.