2 years of fiddling with Rust – critical thoughts

Re:2 years of fiddling with Rust – critical thoughts by slondr on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:22PM (#33498719)

On my phone a Rust program of significant size can take multiple hours to finish compiling, where a C program of comparable size would take about an hour or slightly less.

No reason to discard the language, for sure, and I don't avoid compiling from source even on this machine, but it's definitely worse than C.

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Re:2 years of fiddling with Rust – critical thoughts by woodruffw on Sunday November 06, 2022 @07:07PM (#33499204)

Maybe this is a silly question, but why are you compiling Rust programs on a smartphone?

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Re:2 years of fiddling with Rust – critical thoughts by Gigachad on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:18PM (#33500697)

Not the same person, but programming on phones with Bluetooth keyboards is very common for people learning in developing countries since everyone has a phone, and many do not have a laptop.

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Re:2 years of fiddling with Rust – critical thoughts by woodruffw on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:32PM (#33500790)

I didn't know that, thanks for the explanation! I can absolutely see slow compilations being a problem in that setting.

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