Yeah, even compiling everything you run into the Trusting Trust problem and that's only gotten way worse.

I love rust, but I was installing fd the other day as an alternative to find. Find, written in C I'm guessing and nearly as old as the silicon running it, is 200KB in size, while fd is 4MB. Is it 20 times better for being 20 times bigger? I'm not worried about the space but obviously 3.8MB of runtime and framework, in every executable, is both a lot of overhead and a lot of places to hide surveillance. Should i be worried that every rust program, compiled to LLVM, a system maintained and sponsored by Apple, has the potential to be backdoored?

Well probably not since all the chips are already backdoored, but who's to say Apple wouldn't double down. How far do you trust the .net or java runtimes? It's tough out here for the paranoids!