On: Two Years with Rust

[pimeys]

I solved this by building myself a 3950x workstation. 16 cores and 32 GB of RAM does miracles for Rust workflows.

That and the guidance kouteiheika gave above puts you far already.

[pjmlp → pimeys]

Which means other system languages will continue to thrive for developers not so lucky with Rust compiler rigs.

[pimeys → pjmlp]

The funny thing is I paid about the same from my rig that people pay for a Macbook Pro. It is not really unaffordable and you get a great development machine.

Of course nowadays the combination of Emacs and rust-analyzer gives you a very fast and nice workflow. That and one terminal running

  cargo watch -s 'clear; cargo check --tests --color=always 2>&1 | head -40'

works miracles.

[staticassertion → pimeys]

Yeah I have 8 cores(HT) and 16GB, which is apparently just not enough.

I think my plan is to just move builds to some kinda EC2 instance that I can bulk up.

[pimeys → staticassertion]

It's probably just the thermals. A desktop CPU runs circles over any laptop due to tremendously better thermals and power window.

[staticassertion → pimeys]

It's possible, but my laptop runs fairly cool - it's elevated on a stand and is 18 inches, with a lot of ventilation. Of course it doesn't compare to a desktop system, but even still, this thing is hardly weak. It's a bit absurd to require 16 cores and 32GB of RAM to be productive.