Matt Cockayne on Mythryl: “I finally asked my Go framework the rude question: how big is a tool…”

I finally asked my Go framework the rude question: how big is a tool that does nothing? 81 MB, and 58% of it was SDKs it would never call, sat behind a comment of mine promising an opt-out that Go can't provide. Now 34 MB, plus the bill for it. #golang

phpboyscout.ukEighty-one megabytes of hello worldHow a framework's untested escape-hatch comment let a do-nothing binary swell to 81 MB, and what it cost to get it down to 34.

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