[ericbarrett]

> debug symbols

In ye olden days it was common to distribute a binary without debug symbols, but to keep a copy of them for every released build¹. If an application crashed (panicked, signalled, etc.) you got a core dump that you could debug using the stripped binary together with the symbol file. This gave you both smaller binary sizes and full debugging capability at the cost of some extra administration. I'm not sure if this is possible with "stock" Rust, but if you need lean binaries but want to do forensic investigation it's something to look into.

1. https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Separ...

[wongarsu]

It's possible, but rust follows platform conventions in only doing this by default on Windows. However it is now easy to configure by setting split-debuginfo in your Cargo.toml [1]

1: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#spli...