I hope Nix takes off for one reason. I don't want people to do same builds again and again especially for Rust it's painful.
I want to install binaries with cargo instead of doing the same build again and again. Similar to https://cachix.org
I don't honestly know why that isn't the case yet, perhaps storing binaries takes too much storage that Mozilla doesn't have money for. Or perhaps it can't do guarantees like the ones Nix gives to allow binaries being shared of builds.
This is the main reason that makes interfacing with Rust as a plain user a pain.
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I don't honestly know why that isn't the case yet, perhaps storing binaries takes too much storage that Mozilla doesn't have money for. Or perhaps it can't do guarantees like the ones Nix gives to allow binaries being shared of builds.
This is the main reason that makes interfacing with Rust as a plain user a pain.