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> 35MB seems relatively small already 35 MB is huge! Are there any assets inside the binary?

cesarb 6y ago
> 35 MB is huge! For context, 35MB is two and a half boxes of high-density floppy disks. There were whole operating systems, complete with applications, smaller than that.
- pantalaimon 6y ago
  Were? My initrd + vmlinuz is still smaller than that today on a stock Ubuntu kernel.
- perl4ever 6y ago
  I remember when a OO framework like MacApp would produce a minimal "hello world" program that took up hundreds of KB and that was considered almost too bloated to be usable. I can't remember exactly how much, but the better part of a floppy to do nothing was ridiculous.
- erik_seaberg 6y ago
  Seems like a culture clash between “why would you not use your distro’s shared libraries?” and “containerize all the things!”
- qiqitori 6y ago
  Aren't Go binaries completely static? That sort of is a large part of an operating system (the libraries minus hardware-related libraries) -- Just add a kernel (tens of MB) and whatever userland stuff you need to get your hardware to work (which could be "nothing" in some cases) and you're ready to go.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    QNX used to be shipped on a single high density floppy.
distortedsignal 6y ago
There are no assets (other than a helpfile) inside the binary. This is (compiled) 35 MB of Golang.
- wlll 6y ago
  What OS/arch? I have a small program that compies to 16MB, 14 with -w on OS X. Compiling for Linuxx with -w results in a 14MB binary too.
  - distortedsignal 6y ago
    This is a binary with ~1800 LoC including comments and generous whitespace. Probably 16-1700 Executable SLoC. Mostly some API handling, file reading, and user input requests. I'm running the following go version: go version go1.14.4 darwin/amd64 Looks like the Linux and Darwin versions of the binaries are only a few hundred kb different.
- deleted 6y ago
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jmalicki 6y ago
For context, the Starbucks app on Android is 92MB. My bank's app is 180MB. They might have assets, but modern app size has become ridiculous.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  They are mostly assets or frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin what have you. Native Android doesn't need such big sizes.

> 35 MB is huge! For context, 35MB is two and a half boxes of high-density floppy disks. There were whole operating systems, complete with applications, smaller than that.

pantalaimon 6y ago
Were? My initrd + vmlinuz is still smaller than that today on a stock Ubuntu kernel.
perl4ever 6y ago
I remember when a OO framework like MacApp would produce a minimal "hello world" program that took up hundreds of KB and that was considered almost too bloated to be usable. I can't remember exactly how much, but the better part of a floppy to do nothing was ridiculous.
erik_seaberg 6y ago
Seems like a culture clash between “why would you not use your distro’s shared libraries?” and “containerize all the things!”
qiqitori 6y ago
Aren't Go binaries completely static? That sort of is a large part of an operating system (the libraries minus hardware-related libraries) -- Just add a kernel (tens of MB) and whatever userland stuff you need to get your hardware to work (which could be "nothing" in some cases) and you're ready to go.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  QNX used to be shipped on a single high density floppy.

distortedsignal 6y ago

There are no assets (other than a helpfile) inside the binary. This is (compiled) 35 MB of Golang.

wlll 6y ago
What OS/arch? I have a small program that compies to 16MB, 14 with -w on OS X. Compiling for Linuxx with -w results in a 14MB binary too.
- distortedsignal 6y ago
  This is a binary with ~1800 LoC including comments and generous whitespace. Probably 16-1700 Executable SLoC. Mostly some API handling, file reading, and user input requests. I'm running the following go version: go version go1.14.4 darwin/amd64 Looks like the Linux and Darwin versions of the binaries are only a few hundred kb different.
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jmalicki 6y ago

For context, the Starbucks app on Android is 92MB. My bank's app is 180MB. They might have assets, but modern app size has become ridiculous.

pjmlp 6y ago
They are mostly assets or frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin what have you. Native Android doesn't need such big sizes.