Comment by AnonymousPlanet
5 years ago
Or you just provide your own Python package. Most of the time that will be less than 100 MB if you don't include huge libraries. You can test and build automatically. For deployment you then have an installer or rpm that is probably smaller than most of the other enterprise software your customer's infrastructure admins are handling.
The problem is "less than 100mb" is unacceptable (for my use cases).
There are use cases where 100-300mb is no big deal and customer can handle this.
But single binary deployments with a statically compiled language where a fully-featured binary can weigh in from 5-30mb are what I'm after.
And honestly, with upx I can take even those fat Go binaries down from ~35mb to 7-8mb. That's an order of magnitude less than 100mb of Python and all it's dependencies. Not to mention with all those languages I mentioned (Go, Rust, Nim, Zig), I get multi-threading and high-performance as well.