Snake Game when compiling

[arnoexe]

Problem

For small projects, it doesn't take too long to compile Rust projects.

For big projects, it can take a while, definitely if you've made a lot of changes. Hence why it could be nice to have a small snake game to play on the side in your terminal. Maybe a cool little easter egg that only works when you pass a specific flag in the cargo run command.

Proposed Solution

Snake game.

Notes

Snake game.

[weihanglo]

As for gaming during compilation, I would recommend Factorio, which you also wait for cargos a lot in game.

Joke a side, we have a Performance label tracking Cargo's performance issues. The compilation of Rust mostly spend on the compiler side. Read this chapter of The Rust Performance Book for how to improve the compile time.

As for Cargo itself, issues would immediately impact compile time is a better story around caches. Per user cache is one of them. A better scheduling algorithm also a potential one.

Close as maintainers have no capacity to maintain this easter egg. Feel free to discuss more on those issues :)