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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by Jasper_ on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:23AM (#24143608)
I seem to keep running out of space on my relatively small SSD where my OS is installed, so, yeah, it totally is a concern.
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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:32PM (#24146588)
If applications were portable, then just put them on a different disk. This isn't rocket science, we've been doing it since the 80s.

Problem is that portable applications are an alien concept to Linux.

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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by heavyset_go on Sunday August 16, 2020 @12:01AM (#24174947)
> Problem is that portable applications are an alien concept to Linux.

Static builds, AppImage, FlatPak, containers, etc would like to have a word with you.

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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by qppo on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:28AM (#24143666)
Buy a bigger ssd if you can, they're cheap. The last drive I bought was a 1TB Intel SSD for like $90.

But the pain point is on laptops like MacBooks which have comically small storage space for their price point. I think the base models have a measly 256GB SSD and charge crazy amounts for upgrades.

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