I keep seeing more and more news about Rust, and figure that perhaps it is time that I learn something new.
99% of my development work these days is C with the target being Linux/ARM with a small-ish memory model. Think 64 or 128MB of DDR. Does this fit within Rust's world?
I've noticed that stripped binary sizes for a simple "Hello, World!" example are significantly larger with Rust. Is this just the way things are and the "cost of protection"? For reference, using rustc version 1.41.0, the stripped binary was 199KiB and the same thing in C (gcc 9.3) was 15KiB.
The following is a very good resource, going from safe/practical ways to reduce the size (like `strip`) to more advanced and unpractical builds (up to 8KiB hello world, removing... a lot).