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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Yes and no, the linker does nicely trim a lot of the fat, but rust binaries are still pretty chonky. Its good chonky (debug etc), and static compile doesnt help, but they are quite fat.

Also doesnt help compile times that you have to build all this extra stuff, only to throw most of it away.