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hu3 on May 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

This other person wrote their own async runtime and web server from scratch to reduce bloat, and their rust app still vendors 2 million lines of code:

https://hackertimes.com/item?id=43942055

arp242 on May 10, 2025 [–]

Sounds like a lot is just (generated) syscall stuff? Either way, that doesn't really explain anything.

hu3 on May 10, 2025 | [–]

That's one part of Rust bloat and slow compilation times.

But there's still a ton of dependency code there.

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