Re: svg library ideas

[Gregory Heytings]

> Building anything with Rust also involves downloading a lot of binary 
> code off the internet, and I am not quite comfortable with that.

That sentence is guaranteed to make Richard raise an eyebrow, but it is 
not correct.

When you build a Rust program, the build system does not download any 
binary code at all: it downloads the _sources_ of all the dependencies of 
the program, recursively, and everything is built from the sources. 
(Note that all the sources are kept locally after building.)

It is when you build Emacs or any other program written in C or C++ that 
you (usually) download a lot of binary code: you download the binary 
packages of its dependencies that your distro provides.