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by Lev1a 3397 days ago
Could you give an example of what "system libraries" would pose a problem in my example of using Rust with cargo?

Also note that by "no runtime installed" I mean no runtime as in "no Python runtime", "no JVM" etc. not necessarily "no libc"

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scriptkiddy 3397 days ago
>Could you give an example of what "system libraries" would pose a problem in my example of using Rust with cargo?

Specifically things like xorg libs, libmpeg, libsdl, and such. Not that Rust would have a problem interfacing with them, just that they would need to be present regardless of whether or not someone was just trying to run a distributed binary.

Agreed that you wouldn't need a VM like CPython or the JVM. However, Rust isn't unique in that department. Almost all languages that compile to binary executables have this advantage.

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Lev1a 3397 days ago
> Specifically things like xorg libs, libmpeg, libsdl, and such. Not that Rust would have a problem interfacing with them, just that they would need to be present regardless of whether or not someone was just trying to run a distributed binary.

That's why stuff like that is AFAIK usually either distributed with the binary or is absolutely required to have present on the system, regardless of the PL, if you want to/can only distribute a "naked" binary.

> Agreed that you wouldn't need a VM like CPython or the JVM. However, Rust isn't unique in that department. Almost all languages that compile to binary executables have this advantage.

Didn't mean to suggest this is unique to Rust, which is why I wrote

> because Rust is a compiled language.

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scriptkiddy 3397 days ago
I think I may have misunderstood your point after re-reading.

I thought you were implying that compiled binaries do not have dependencies. Now I can see that is not the case.

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