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by IshKebab 22 days ago
I don't think I really agree with that. You can make do with less powerful machines in Rust too. Until this year I was using a 12 year old quad core machine that was only a bit faster than a RPi 5.

I think the biggest issue is actually disk space. C++ isn't exactly efficient with disk space but Rust is on another level. You're going to run out of disk space on that netbook it you have any more than like 2 Rust projects built.

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On that netbook, this tiny Gtk Rust application took about 10 minutes from a git clone.

https://github.com/pjmlp/gwc-rs

The original C++ versions was done in 2 minutes, because it spent zero minutes compiling all dependencies.

Needlees to say that first compilation had an impact on battery charge as well.

Naturally on such a beefy machine it will fly given how fast Bevy gets compiled.