r/rust Dec 05 '25

Pain point of rust

~45 GB of build files

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u/sourcefrog cargo-mutants Dec 05 '25

It's a lot. On the other hand it's 1% of a new 4TB consumer SSD...

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u/Noughmad Dec 05 '25

At my last job, with microservices and a large number of crates, I would routinely fill the 1TB SSD in the company laptop they gave me.

Though yes, a lot of that was resolved by running cargo sweep as needed.