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50mb for a build tool is still ludicrous. Very few product codebases will ever reach that size. In my experience there is a strong correlation between executab
by jiofih 6y ago
50mb for a build tool is still ludicrous. Very few product codebases will ever reach that size.
In my experience there is a strong correlation between executable size and how hard it is to unravel any issue that arises in it.
- klodolph 6y ago> In my experience there is a strong correlation between executable size and how hard it is to unravel any issue that arises in it. Bazel bundles the JRE, that’s why it’s 45 MB. The correlation is kinda beside the point, though, because my experience with Bazel is that it’s easier to unravel issues with Bazel than unravel issues with Make, and Make is much smaller.