Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu...
by jiofih on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:50AM
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Having it written and distributed in Rust kind of defeats the whole “compact” sales pitch, as you now have to download a couple gigabytes to try it out...
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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu...
by kroltan on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:19AM
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> you now have to download a couple gigabytes
You... don't?
Default installation size of the Rust toolchain is about 800mb extracted to disk, way less so of downloading.
Hardly an inordinate filesize for a development toolchain. For example, MSYS is 950mb just for the C++ toolchain. You might shave a lot on Linux thanks to package reuse, but "conceptually" it would be about the same size, just that in practice you start with some parts downloaded.
Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu...
by steveklabnik on Sunday July 26, 2020 @10:42AM
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They may be referring to the Windows MSVC target, where you have to install the C++ build tools to get access to link.exe.
... that being said, if they distributed a binary, you wouldn’t need any of that, too.