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What is going on with serde?
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I hate that I'm linking to Reddit, but I'm just reminded of this.
Some of us knew where all the obsession with dependencies' compile times will lead, and triggered the alarm sirens, if half-jerkingly, years ago.
Compile times, and more specifically, dependencies compile times, is and has always been the most overblown problem in Rust. We would have some sort of sccache public repositories or something similar by now if it was that big of a problem.
And yes, I'm aware
proc-macro
crates in particular present unique challenges in that field. But that shouldn't change the general stance towards the supposed "problem". And it should certainly not trigger such an obsession that would lead to such a horrible "solution" like thisserde
one.OT, but remember you can always use an archived link instead of a live one.