cargo-bloat mit Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• cargo-bloat

Projektgeschichte

Yevhenii Reizner's cargo-bloat repository was created in January 2018, and version 0.1.0 was published to crates.io a few days later. The README describes the package as a way to find what takes most of the space in an executable, with support for ELF, Mach-O, and PE binaries.

The project was explicitly inspired by Google's Bloaty binary size profiler while adopting a Rust/Cargo-specific interface. Over later releases it added and kept options such as per-crate views, filtering, splitting standard-library crates, full function names, wide output, and JSON output.

Adoptionsgeschichte

cargo-bloat spread because Rust developers regularly need size explanations for CLI tools, embedded-adjacent binaries, WebAssembly-adjacent investigations, and release optimization. Crates.io places it in the Cargo plugins category and reports more than 360,000 downloads.

Its package-manager footprint is broader than a one-off Cargo plugin: the input records Homebrew, Alpine, Nix, and Arch packaging. That matters because size-analysis tools are often installed globally on developer machines and CI images rather than vendored into projects.

Wie es verwendet wird

The common path is `cargo install cargo-bloat` and then `cargo bloat --release -n 10` to list the largest functions in the release build. `cargo bloat --release --crates` switches the view to crate-level contribution.

The README emphasizes that per-crate numbers are estimates, not exact accounting. It also notes that WebAssembly is not supported and points users toward twiggy for that use case.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

cargo-bloat is a classic package-nerd tool because it turns compiler output into a ranked table that directly informs dependency choices. It is one of the Rust ecosystem's small, sharp CLI packages that makes invisible package cost visible.

Its relationship to Bloaty and twiggy also shows how Rust packaging borrowed from general binary-analysis culture while building Cargo-native workflows for Rust developers.

Zeitleiste

• 2018-01-07: GitHub repository RazrFalcon/cargo-bloat was created.
• 2018-01-11: cargo-bloat 0.1.0 was published on crates.io.
• 2018-2020: The 0.2 through 0.10 releases iterated quickly on Cargo-plugin binary-size reporting.
• 2022-06-04: Version 0.11.1 was published.
• 2024-05-10: Version 0.12.1 was published.

Related projects

• google/bloaty is cited by the README as an inspiration.
• rustwasm/twiggy is recommended by the README for WebAssembly size analysis.
• Cargo's plugin mechanism provides the `cargo bloat` subcommand interface.

Quellen

• GitHub repository API metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/RazrFalcon/cargo-bloat
• Official README: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/cargo-bloat#readme
• Package-manager adoption from source_facts.package-manager.
• crates.io API metadata and versions: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/cargo-bloat