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   JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 03:18:40 JST JP Mens

   Lucky for me that I had a console open and visible!

   #rusting

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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 03:18:40 JST Tim Chase

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     @jpmens something about this saddens me. I remember Turbo Pascal running blazingly fast on my parents' 286 with 640KB of memory and a slow 30MB spinning-rust HDD. A quick web search says it needed less than 512KB for the full IDE+compiler, and about 256KB for just the command-line compiler.

     That Rust would die with an out-of-memory error in a world where computers have GBs of RAM and mindbogglingly faster CPUs/disks…the soul weeps.