Unrelated to this good work directly, but I experienced a funny moment yesterday. My new employer issued me a 16 inch M1 Pro - naturally, I installed Rust :)<p>The thing cargo builds (in release, no less) about as fast as my previous machine could npm install on a particular project.<p>I realize this is all M1 just absolutely chewing through it, but as long as compiler time improvements remain steady and constant I don't think I'll have a ton to complain about.
Tytytyty!!<p>I know this is not realistic, but the only thing rust is missing is faster compilation times. To be fair, it’s already super fast.<p>I was adding a repl[1] to create-react-app[2] (trying to achieve something like RoR’s console) and it took way too long for it to boot simply because the dependencies for something like a full scale web app take long to compile. Even with incremental compilation, that first boot time was too much.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app</a>