infinitevalence comments on Is it possible to write Rust on a low end system?

submitted 8 months ago by silly_goose@lemmy.today to c/rust@programming.dev

Rust analyzer and compilation are very slow. My system is heating up, running out of ram and disk space. I have 8 GB ram.

I use helix editor.

edit: thank you for all your suggestions. I am breaking up the project into smaller crates to see if that makes a difference.

I got the biggest improvements from zram and sccache. With zram my memory usage stays at 90% instead of fully running out when rust-analyzer starts.

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 3 points 8 months ago

Ahhh, Write != Compile....

maybe get a 2nd low end computer like cast off corporate PC and have that do all your compiling while you keep working on your main PC.