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Is it possible to write Rust on a low end system? (lemmy.today)
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Rust analyzer and compilation are very slow. My system is heating up, running out of ram and disk space. I have 8 GB ram.

I use helix editor.

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[–] robinm@fosstodon.org 2 points 2 days ago

@TehPers @FizzyOrange "old laptop" RAM usage scale heavily with core count. Modern CPU have much more core, and thus RAM is much more useful for compiling nowadays