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openedon Jun 20, 2019
I went to this page:
https://forge.rust-lang.org/other-installation-methods
and I discovered that the download is 203 MB. This was surprising to me, so I
looked at other languages:
| Language | Size | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Go | 135 MB | https://golang.org/dl |
| Perl | 102 MB | http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html |
| Julia | 50 MB | https://julialang.org/downloads |
| Python | 25 MB | https://python.org/downloads/release/python-373 |
| PHP | 25 MB | https://windows.php.net/download |
| D | 23 MB | https://dlang.org/download.html |
| Nim | 19 MB | https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html |
| Ruby | 11 MB | https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads |
So Rust is 70% larger than Go. Or to put another way, Rust is larger than Julia,
Python, PHP, D, Nim and Ruby combined. Can anything be done about this or is
the large size unavoidable?
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