alt Hacker NewsMisleading how? If your first thought on looking at a Rust-generated static library is that it's fucking huge, it's not misleading at all for someone to tell you that Rust-generated static libraries are mostly LLVM bitcode that you can remove with `objcopy --remove-section .llvmbc`.
This somewhat custom use-case has an option turned on that jacks the size way up. Here is a hacky way to undo that option.
You could also just ... not turn it on in the first place. You are doing a nonstandard build already.