an hour ago
> It's easy to understate how big of a deal this is for the compiler. This work resolves a major piece of technical debt that a lot of compiler developers dreamed about for years.
No kidding. I’ve been waiting for the solver at least half that decade now. Hopefully it and Polonius unblock specialization which has been in purgatory for years.
3 hours ago
Smaller target directory size would be such a lifesaver. Hoping the best for you, and Rust!
44 minutes ago
This!
There's a recurring meme here and in other social media about rust being slow to compile, but anyone who's worked with Rust know that target dirs are a much more annoying papercut in practice than the relative speed of the compiler (which isn't appreciably worse than any other toolchain out there for the most common workflows).
3 hours ago
It would help, yes. Here's one of my projects, that uses different subdirectories in target/ based on compiler options pre-commit runs:
$ du -hcs target/
190G target/34 minutes ago
I can deal with large builds, what I cant deal with is time. My rust web application takes 20 minutes to build in release mode on a high end developer machine. I can’t build it in ci/cd.
21 minutes ago
Yeah, there are some things I've done to mitigate this, especially for the dev loop. Moving templates out of rust (losing some safety). Splitting the application into vertical slices. Only generating code that's changed. Turning features into crates.
It's been a journey...
21 minutes ago
That sounds like something is very wrong with your setup.
18 minutes ago
Could you e plain the issue for a non-rustacean?
2 hours ago
Pretty wild to see how different people’s experiences can be within the same industry but under different applications and circumstances, here is someone joyful about the future of a language whereas not long ago we had a Ruby gem maintainer in deep dissatisfaction and frustration with the future of it.
Not implying to compare Rust and Ruby, just mainly observing how these two things came out near each other in the present day.
4 hours ago
I don't understandy why, but all submissions of this post so far had incorrect title. When I posted the correct one, it still got reassigned the wrong title and I had to edit it (and it didn't allow me to do that yesterday, only today).
3 hours ago
Hacker News has some automatic fixes for title text. Some - perhaps all - of them can walk into false positives where a change that's usually desirable instead ruins the title either because it's a joke and the change spoils the joke or just because English is complicated.
41 minutes ago
The best way to get a rust job is get a regular job and just write rust
an hour ago
Rust is not very relevant anymore when you can write it in C and once in a while run an LLM over it to catch any memory issues...
an hour ago
I hope this is satire.
11 minutes ago
It is not. Tell me one good reason to deal with the horrible language called rust now that we have mechanisms capable of doing the exact same stuff in a vastly less obnoxious manner....(I am talking about running LLMs over your C code once in a while).
I don't like rust because
1. Verbose Syntax made worse by having to include type system info... 2. Dumb Borrow checker 3. Automagic stuff...
29 minutes ago
or to save tokens you can have an LLM write a borrow checker to do this for you. Oh wait you're just rebuilding rust...
16 minutes ago
The point of writing in C is that I don't have to deal with borrow checker shit when it is too dumb to figure out what I want to do is actually safe.