I find it especially weird that it’s almost always labeled like something special if it’s written in Rust, even though as the end user the only thing I know will be different is the compile time, as it usually takes around 10-20 times longer than if it would be written in c, with 500 dependencies being pulled and recompiled every time. Which means if tests fail, even though the app works fine, and I had that happen twice in Rust, it will take three tries or so until I manage to fully remove the test section from the pkgbuild, resulting in an hour loss for just installing something that could’ve taken 5 minutes.
It’s just weirdly noticeable when one rust program with ~150 lines of code, designed to connect to a specific device and send commands according to the intensity of music, takes longer to compile than updating a typical Arch testing setup after a month without maintenance, including the (non Rust) AUR packages.
Well, I’m not here to claim that Rust’s compile times aren’t comparatively long, especially for non-incremental builds. It’s a trade-off that was chosen to not need a runtime environment, nor be as simplistic/footgun as C.
What I’m saying is that this trade-off was chosen and continues to be popular, because the vast majority of users will never notice (nor will programmers really, as they have incremental builds).
Maybe you can download the fully built package from somewhere? Maybe Arch can package it in the proper repos?
I find it especially weird that it’s almost always labeled like something special if it’s written in Rust, even though as the end user the only thing I know will be different is the compile time, as it usually takes around 10-20 times longer than if it would be written in c, with 500 dependencies being pulled and recompiled every time. Which means if tests fail, even though the app works fine, and I had that happen twice in Rust, it will take three tries or so until I manage to fully remove the test section from the pkgbuild, resulting in an hour loss for just installing something that could’ve taken 5 minutes.
You seem to be a rather specific user, if the compile time is something you notice, let alone the only thing…
It’s just weirdly noticeable when one rust program with ~150 lines of code, designed to connect to a specific device and send commands according to the intensity of music, takes longer to compile than updating a typical Arch testing setup after a month without maintenance, including the (non Rust) AUR packages.
Well, I’m not here to claim that Rust’s compile times aren’t comparatively long, especially for non-incremental builds. It’s a trade-off that was chosen to not need a runtime environment, nor be as simplistic/footgun as C.
What I’m saying is that this trade-off was chosen and continues to be popular, because the vast majority of users will never notice (nor will programmers really, as they have incremental builds).
Maybe you can download the fully built package from somewhere? Maybe Arch can package it in the proper repos?
> Decide to create a very basic GUI app in Rust, as everyone is saying it’s a great language for it
> First compilation takes over 15 minutes to download and compile 100 libraries
> Debug files take up 2GB of storage
> Output binary file comes out massive for no reason
> “Yeah you’re supposed to write a few lines to optimize for size in your release profile”
> Compiling now takes 30 minutes instead