Besides their size, rust binaries have a significant disadvantage: rust binaries are not memes yet.
cargo-memex is a cargo subcommand that makes it easy to ditch basic rust binaries in favor of memes, which is arguably the far superior format for executable rust files.
Standard rust binaries always look the same, which means consistently boring: .
With cargo-memex they can look like this:
Another limitation of rust binaries is, that debug and release executables are visually indistinguishable.
cargo-memex fixes this problem by displaying the two different target destinations by default with the corresponding segment of:
cargo install cargo-memex
Compile your current project into the meme above, for other built in memes see resources
cargo memex build tradeofferCompile your current project into happy hank
cargo memex build --releaseCompile with local meme
cargo memex build ./meme.jpgUse a jpeg meme on the web
cargo memex build "https://meme.jpg"
To execute a memex executable meme
cargo memex exec meme.jpgBuild then execute in one step
cargo memex runTo achieve feature parity with cargo support for publishing memes will be required. Unfortunately crates.io does not support publishing crates as memex memes yet. So in the meantime, another solution needs to be developed.
The recent NFT frenzy has shown that there is a high demand for NFT based solutions, and that especially memes can be very lucrative.
Hence, solutions for cargo-memex are currently being investigated in order to tap this growing market.
Ideally, the cargo publish subcommand should be extended by an --nft option, so that developers can directly publish a new version of their rust project as a memex NFT.
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