Michael Gattozzi: "What Happens When You Run Cargo Build?" | RustConf 2024

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A talk by Michael Gattozzi (Senior Software Engineer at InfluxData) at RustConf 2024 in Montreal, Canada & online on September 12. Hosted by the Rust Foundation.
Abstract:
A deep dive into everything cargo does just to build a singular binary/library.
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[@rodelias9378]

Great talk! Stupid hardcoded subtitles tho

[@Tigregalis]

yeah this is so genuinely such a bad idea that it's laughable. if these subtitles were done by hand and were correct, then maybe it would be justifiable, but you could also just add a subtitle track instead of hardcoding it. but the fact the subs are autogenerated and often wrong makes this particularly bad.

[@arubaga]

Can WASM be used to make portable Rust shared libraries?

[@speedstyle.]

You can, programs like Zed use this for plugins. But now you have to ship a wasm runtime with your application, you're losing a lot of performance and complexity if you don't need the portability and isolation.

[@antonf.9278]

Also you need a ABI, so you either use the C ABI and lose enums or use something like stabby, which requires it's own version of most types.

[@speedstyle.]

@antonf.9278 Well, WASM works a little differently as there's the Component interface, which provides an ABI with high-level types and even sandboxes libraries from one another.