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How many people would use a Rust cloud compiler?

Suppose it cuts build time from 5 minutes to 30 seconds....

Technically, a transparently mirrored file system, a strong compiler cluster (memory, cores, etc). And some predictive ML. But you end up with a binary-equivalent (verifiable) output.

Any thoughts ?

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I wouldn't use it. Incremental builds aren't that bad, and I'd have a hard time trusting third party compiled libs enough to include in a release from a new service that hasn't built up trust the way that say a Linux distro has.

While you could assume any maliciousness or security compromise would be caught, as you can see from the rubygems news today this is not instant and it adds another point of failure.

I would likely use this depending on how transparent it was and the pricing and if it supported RLS etc. I was writing a rust project on a terrible old laptop that took 2-5 minutes for compilation time. I ended up standing up a Digital Ocean instance and used VScode (via Coder https://github.com/cdr/code-server ). And this ended up being the most workable solution. Cut down my compilation times significantly and also helped w/ VScode RAM usage.

Not sure how the buisness model for a cloud compiler would work, but I would be interested.

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