alt Hacker NewsOne thing I wish Rust would improve over time is the builds. Its one of the biggest sources of wasted storage space on all my computers, builds a ton of libraries can take tens of gigs, it adds up very quickly. Not sure what the best solution is, one I found is to set the global build folder so dependencies get reused across projects, but imho it should be an OOTB default behavior whatever the real solution should be.
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c-hendricks • today at 4:08 PM
I always got a kick out of that, coming from a JavaScript background where people constantly harp on the size of node modules.
My Tauri project, where the backend is much smaller code-wise than the frontend, has 9gb of rust artifacts (node_modules is 550mb for comparison)
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We are trading away disk space for faster builds. We could make them faster in some cases by using even more...
On the other hand, it would be good to garbage collect those caches. We are wrapping up work on a new layout for intermediate build artifacts that will make it easier to GC them.