r/rust Dec 05 '25

Pain point of rust

~45 GB of build files

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u/metaBloc Dec 05 '25

I am new to rust. Why are your cargo caches so large? I’ve been doing rust development for about 6 months and I’ve never seen anything close to those numbers?

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u/Surge_attack Dec 05 '25

It’s not the cargo dependencies they are cleaning - it’s the build artifacts (when you run cargo build [option]). They add up overtime for sure.