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Peak security (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's easy to write, easy to build, produces lightweight and fast executables, and the type system is great. Why not rust?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Rust does not have an ABI. Everything is linked into the executables. I would not call them lightweight.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago*

    A standard Docker container with a NodeJS/PHP/Python app is usually around 200-300 MB (yes really), the OpenJDK JVM is around a hundred MB, but a fully statically compiled rust binary that doesn't even depend on libc is just a couple MB and can be deployed as a tiny distroless Docker container.

    It's a lot heavier than your 8kb C++ executable but it's nothing compared to what is required to deploy anything else.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, so it's inconvenient for GPL-circumventers, too? That just sounds better and better.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    To me, it is mostly a real blocker for using it in some embedded Linux devices due to size constraints, otherwise I personally would be using it extensively.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm having a hard time imagining this Goldilocks embedded device that is simultaneously big enough to run Linux (so not an actual microcontroller), yet too small for a few megabytes worth of statically-linked libraries. Got an example?

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