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Is it possible to write Rust on a low end system? (lemmy.today)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/rust@programming.dev
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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.

edit: thank you for all your suggestions. I am breaking up the project into smaller crates to see if that makes a difference.

I got the biggest improvements from zram and sccache. With zram my memory usage stays at 90% instead of fully running out when rust-analyzer starts.

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago

The only thing “heavy” about helix is it will download all the tree sitter grammars by default you can limit this, but it’s a disk usage thing.

https://docs.helix-editor.com/languages.html?highlight=Use-Grammars#choosing-grammars

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