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> Something is seriously wrong with today's app development ecosystem if it takes 70 MB, even when I already have both Chromium and ffmpeg on my system. I used
by mintplant 10y ago
> Something is seriously wrong with today's app development ecosystem if it takes 70 MB, even when I already have both Chromium and ffmpeg on my system.
I used to think this way about Electron as well, but then I tried bundling up a ~30 lines long Python/NumPy+SciPy script for standalone use on Windows. pyinstaller produced a 300mb blob; the smallest I could get the whole thing was around 100mb.
- pritambaral 10y ago> for standalone use on Windows There's the difference. In your case, you were bundling for a system that didn't already have Python+NumPy+SciPy. In my case, I already have Chromium/Chrome and ffmpeg on my system.