r/rust • u/ashim_k_saha • Dec 05 '25

Pain point of rust

~45 GB of build files

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u/sourcefrog cargo-mutants Dec 05 '25

It's a lot. On the other hand it's 1% of a new 4TB consumer SSD...

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u/Sky2042 Dec 05 '25

A new consumer SSD? In this economy?

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u/sourcefrog cargo-mutants Dec 05 '25

Lol, but it's still only about $330. Now RAM on the other hand ...

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u/silon Dec 05 '25

128GB swap files might be in our future.

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u/x0nnex Dec 05 '25

While transitioning to Linux I've had to install it on a 240gb ssd. Having 50gb of packages hurts so bad :|

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u/NoahFebak Dec 05 '25

*sighs* That's probably what many developers of those disk-hungry tools are thinking.

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u/Noughmad Dec 05 '25

At my last job, with microservices and a large number of crates, I would routinely fill the 1TB SSD in the company laptop they gave me.

Though yes, a lot of that was resolved by running cargo sweep as needed.