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points by simlevesque 3 days ago | 0 comments

My only issue with it is that you can't ship a wasm go app in under 2mb. With rust you can make it under 100kb.

isn't that one of TinyGo's raison d'etre's? I've never tried wasm, but executables are typically a magnitude smaller than go's (assuming your go code is compatible with tinygo, of course)

[–] groundzeros2015 3 days ago

Jeez, and I thought 100 KB was absurd.

[–] citizenpaul 2 days ago

Do you do a lot of work in WASM? What is a reasonable size? Or just against the every increasing internet bloat in general?

[–] groundzeros2015 2 days ago

Think about how many instructions fit in 100 KB. Why are they in your hello world?

Binary bloat is not just about size; it impacts startup time and icache. It’s basically the speed of light launch time.

So you’re telling me rust is not good for UNIX style tools.