alt Hacker NewsIt's a bit of an unfair comparison, the benchmarked C# code here is also post-processed which none of the other targets are. See this comment[1] on reddit where the author announced this on the /r/dotnet subreddit, Rust can go much, much lower. The title is misleading at best and a lie at worst, this is great but saying it beats Rust is a far cry from the truth except for the very narrow benchmark made to showcase this tool.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1x7wsgb/rust_just_l...
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TFA did [0] the most important stuff for minimizing Rust binaries: release mode, LTO, strip, and abort on panic. But there is a lot more you can do if you really care about Rust binary size [1]: remove location details, purge the debug formatters, rebuild the standard library for size, abort with no error message at all, and nuttier stuff.
[0]: https://github.com/zion-sati/NetWasm/blob/main/docs/size-and...
personally, I disregard and ignore cross-language benchmarks. Benchmarks are hard, benchmarks in managed languages are extra hard.
And then the person writing the code has to be an expert in all languages involved to make it even half fair, instead of just a sound-bite/click-bait.
This is an entirely different toolchain from the official .NET one, which is kind of the point of the post. It is experimental, but intended to for production, not for beating benchmarks.
Rust also builds a pretty small binary, which is cool. This isn't really meant to be a 'C# is better than Rust' post, but more pointing out that Blazor (which is the official MS implementation) builds huge binaries; often >10MB, which is a real problem. This fixes that.