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Arrr, me hearty! Ye be askin' for a simple piece o' code in Rust, peppered with pirate comments. Here be a wee program that prints a hearty greeting:

fn main() {
    // Avast, me hearties! We start our voyage here.
    let greeting = "Ahoy, matey! Welcome aboard!";

    // Yo ho ho! We print our greeting to the open sea!
  println!("{}", greeting);
}

Now ye be havin' a taste o' pirate-infused Rust code! If ye be havin' any more requests or need further assistance, feel free to speak up, and I'll be at yer service!

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[-] aussiematt@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

When I compiled that program, the executable was around 10MB. I wrote the same program in C, and the executable was 15kB. That's about 3 orders of magnitude difference. Is Rust really 1000 times better than C? :-)

[-] axum@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Rust turns a lot of safety things 'on' by default.
Turning all of that off for a tiny program that doesn't need it such as hello world results in a comparable size.

This is a good talk on rust
https://youtu.be/VlSkZYBeK8Q

And this one goes over size reduction
https://youtu.be/b2qe3L4BX-Y

[-] aussiematt@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the resources. I'm old school, and so far haven't really looked into Rust; I look forward to watching the talk you linked to.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

this is not due to safety but rather std. Set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto

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