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metaltyphoon on May 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

Doesn’t Java offer some sort of trimming like C#? I know he won’t remove everything but at least they can trim down a lot of things.

pjmlp on May 9, 2025 [–]

Yes, jlink, code guard, R8/D8 on Android, if you want to stay at the bytecode level, plus all the commercial AOT compilers and the free beer ones, offer similar capabilities at the binary level.

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