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A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top
by rly_ItsMe 12y ago
A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me?
I'll rather stay with my old python one:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0
- drtse4 12y agoTry compiling it with gccgo that is able to dynamically link the go standard library (shared among your go projects) instead of building a single big binary, my guess is it should be just a few hundred kb :)
- rly_ItsMe 12y agoI did not compiled it by my self - I've just grabbed the binary provided by OP.
- 4ad 12y agoDo you object to the hundreds of megabytes of your browser's code and dependant libraries too? Or since you brought up Python, why don't you object to the size of python's libraries and binaries? 7.9MB is nothing.
- rly_ItsMe 12y agoValid Point. Or not? It took a bit longer but I wrote a bit about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119322