Comment by benreesman
7 hours ago
You said something false and important and I took the opportunity to educate anyone reading about why this aspect of their computing experience is a mess. All of that is germane to how we ended up in a situation where someone is calling rustc with a Dockerfile and this is considered normal.
Seems like you still misunderstand both the comment and context and getting overly emotional/conspiratorial. You might want to work on those feelings.
No one is trying to take anyone's multi-gigabyte pile of dynamic library closure to deploy what should be a few hundred kilobytes of arbitrarily portable, secure by construction, built to last executable.
But people should make an informed choice, and there isn't any noble or high minded or well-meaning reason to try to shout that information down.
Don't confidently assert falsehoods unless you're prepared to have them refuted. You're entitled to peddle memes and I'm entitled to reply with corrections.