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One word: Swift It's making app bundle sizes explode in size
by msoad 9y ago
One word: Swift
It's making app bundle sizes explode in size
- ge0rg 9y agoCould you please elaborate, or provide examples? I can see how high-res pictures embedded in the app can add dozens of megabytes, and maybe a different runtime that you have to bundle for compat reasons, but multiple hundreds of MB?
- mikeash 9y agoThe lack of a stable ABI means that the Swift runtime libraries have to be bundled into the apps, which accounts for around 10MB of bloat. Unfortunately, 10MB is almost unnoticeable on the scale of bloated apps these days. Does Swift do anything else to make apps bigger?
- galad87 9y agoSwift libs are ~ 10 MB, still 265 MB to go.