Unrelated to this good work directly, but I experienced a funny moment yesterday. My new employer issued me a 16 inch M1 Pro - naturally, I installed Rust :)
The thing cargo builds (in release, no less) about as fast as my previous machine could npm install on a particular project.
I realize this is all M1 just absolutely chewing through it, but as long as compiler time improvements remain steady and constant I don't think I'll have a ton to complain about.
I know this is not realistic, but the only thing rust is missing is faster compilation times. To be fair, it’s already super fast.
I was adding a repl[1] to create-react-app[2] (trying to achieve something like RoR’s console) and it took way too long for it to boot simply because the dependencies for something like a full scale web app take long to compile. Even with incremental compilation, that first boot time was too much.
lucasyvas|3 years ago
The thing cargo builds (in release, no less) about as fast as my previous machine could npm install on a particular project.
I realize this is all M1 just absolutely chewing through it, but as long as compiler time improvements remain steady and constant I don't think I'll have a ton to complain about.
lionside|3 years ago
I know this is not realistic, but the only thing rust is missing is faster compilation times. To be fair, it’s already super fast.
I was adding a repl[1] to create-react-app[2] (trying to achieve something like RoR’s console) and it took way too long for it to boot simply because the dependencies for something like a full scale web app take long to compile. Even with incremental compilation, that first boot time was too much.
[1] https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl
[2] https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app
Shadonototra|3 years ago
IshKebab|3 years ago
It could still do with being faster but I don't think it's a showstopper anymore.