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		metaltyphoon 11 months ago \| 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 11 months ago [–]

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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