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It’s funny what “tiny” means for different people depending on their background. I expected it to be under an MB as well and was surprised by 6MB.
by tecoholic 1mo ago
It’s funny what “tiny” means for different people depending on their background. I expected it to be under an MB as well and was surprised by 6MB.
- nine_k 1mo agoA typical Go binary would be 2-3 times larger. A typical Node project would easily pull more than 6 MiB of just code, not counting the runtime.
- brabel 1mo agoFor comparison, I publish a CLI tool written in Dart, can compile to native anything including Wasm , the Linux binary is around 5MB and it does quite a lot.
- pjmlp 1mo agoBasically, for me tiny means it fits on a floppy 1.44 HD. Naturally meaningless when people carry around USB sticks that might even hold a 1 TB, but alas.
- tecoholic 1mo agoPretty much my baseline as well. Good example how experiences shape our thinking.
- krzyk 1mo ago> Naturally meaningless when people carry around USB sticks Do people do that? I think it was a decade ago, I thought people download from web nowadays.
- pjmlp 1mo agoNot everyone lives in areas where that is a convenient option.
- boutell 1mo ago[cries in TRS-80 Model III]
- pjmlp 1mo agoOk, lets make it 178 KB then. :)