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by pjmlp 255 days ago
> Do you have 10 year old netbooks to give to everyone? because this seems to be required to have slow compile times in Rust.

Unfortunately not all of us have an economical situation that allow us to sponsor Trump gifts every couple of years.

How many of those thousands of software projects that do use Rust, can be show as counter example to slow compilation times on hardware that common people usually buy and keep around?

Especially in those countries that are outside tier 1 in world economy, getting computers from whatever parts western no longer considers usable for their daily tasks.

Maybe they can afford to wait.