[steveklabnik]

You can absolutely make small rust programs, you just have to actually configure things the right way. Additionally, the Rust language doesn’t have allocation at all, it’s purely a library concern. If you don’t want heap allocations, then don’t include them. It works well.

The smallest binary rustc has produced is like ~145 bytes.

[teunispeters]

That is far from my only concern. But it's good to see Rust is finally paying attention to binary sizes. And the overwhelming complexity of rust code is definitely not a gain when one is working in embedded spaces anyway. I am however really REALLY annoyed with the aggressive sales tactics of the rust community.

[steveklabnik]

> But it's good to see Rust is finally paying attention to binary sizes.

Just to be clear, this isn't a recent development, it has been this way for many years at this point.