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Comment by WhereIsTheTruth

7 days ago

400mb executable for a terminal text editor?

Modern developers have lost their mind

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wg0  7 days ago

Is it 400mb? Could be V8 for plugins.

  • _sinelaw_  7 days ago

    Thanks for reminding me. Unfortunately yes, it's because of v8 (for Deno).

    For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).

    But - I just realized stripping it brings it down to 76MB so I guess that's ok! Will push a commit :)

    • WhereIsTheTruth  6 days ago

      > For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).

      Incredible, the technical choice got overridden by popularity, leading straight to bloat

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