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Do you have data backing that up? Per https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame : C#: 945 kB Go: 2174 kB Both are EXEs you just copy to the machine, no separate runtime needed, …

Is AOT compiling your binaries [1] an option for you? The starting size of AOT compiled C# can beat Go in size [2] and from there it really depends on what you do and how you do it…

> Fair enough; perhaps it'd be worthwhile to throw a compiler error if both reflection and trimming were attempted. The tooling already generates warnings for any spot in the progr…

Someone with an iPhone told me the webm video embedded in the article still doesn't work on iPhones in 2024 so here's another link to the video: https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/sta…

It's a webm, looks like Apple still didn't implement it on iPhones. Here is another version of the video on a website that may work better on iPhones: https://twitter.com/MStrehovs…

The repo does mention the Pi. I just forgot to talk about the Pi specifically in the article, sorry. https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/uefimaze

Here's an example [1] of a device driver in C#. It is possible. It is also not recommended. [1] https://github.com/VollRagm/KernelSharp

I also like the less heavyweight approach where one can compose tools to do things. The existing .NET tooling is so entwined with MSBuild that one can't even (easily) invoke the C#…

This is using Microsoft's standard libraries and compiler parts. All of .NET is MIT licensed so this kind of remixing is super easy.

ZeroSharp is done by the same person as bflat (me). These ZeroSharp samples get broken all the time because they bend the MSBuild targets that ship with .NET to an extreme. Bflat i…

The crosscompilation on Go to mac is pretty limited. That's why I wrote "need to reach dependencies beyond what libc offers". If you crosscompile Go from Linux to mac, you'll actua…

TL;DR: It's work. The way exceptions are done in .NET is by keeping track of extra metadata to be able to unwind methods (remove them from the execution stack) and execute handlers…

I want bflat to be able to crosscompile from anything to anything. Apple's platforms are difficult to crosscompile for - most instructions I've seen that need to reach dependencies…

Some executable file formats have time stamps in them. bflat follows the platform convention that respects this and writes current date/time in the file header by default. It is al…

dflat could imply it has something do to with dlang. bflat triggers a lot of engagement on Twitter and elsewhere because everyone wants to correct it. Couldn't have chosen a better…

bflat author here - happy to answer questions. I think at this point https://flattened.net/ is a better introduction to bflat than the repo. The repo also links to it, but wanted t…

> 212kB Here's a 11 kB bootable x86-64 version of the game written in C# https://github.com/kant2002/SeeSharpSnake/tree/kant/uefi#run... . There's an accompanying article with a vi…

(Author here, I hang out on HN.) Yup. There's really not much extra code in bflat compared to what's in the dotnet/runtimelab repo (in the NativeAOT branch). This just packages thi…

Pass the multiple files to `bflat build`. Or if you run `bflat build` without arguments, it will compile all *.cs files in the current directory. Not great, but works for now.

As a C# dev I'm sometimes envious of the experience that Go devs have around building small selfcontained executables. Type a few lines into a .go file, `go build` the file and you…