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Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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> Tiny. A single ~17 MB app Oh goodness what have we come to? I know we're comparing to electron monstrosities, but still

complaining about 17mb in 2026 has to be virtue signaling of some sort...

yes I know we went to the moon with a few kb but are we going to hang on to that for ever?

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

#32
Kinda interestingly: it zips to 17MB, but the binary looks to be 56MB (davit.app/contents/macos/davit). That seems like a surprising amount of compression for a binary - embedded assets maybe? Possibly this is normal for mac apps though?

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces: - https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app - https://github.com/tofa84/berth

Hmm… how does one even pick between multiple vibe coded options? I like to vet my options before committing to new software but who knows if the authors are gonna support these in a month? I don’t want to waste Fable tokens to fix bugs myself when they crop up.

Ask fable to explore each project and pick the best one lmao

Vibes all the way down

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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post #32

Kinda interestingly: it zips to 17MB, but the binary looks to be 56MB (davit.app/contents/macos/davit). That seems like a surprising amount of compression for a binary - embedded assets maybe? Possibly this is normal for mac apps though?

A lot of Mac apps compress like this. Not so long ago, it was pretty common to download a 3-400mb dmg file that decompresses to a 1.5gb app package, for example.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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post #32

Kinda interestingly: it zips to 17MB, but the binary looks to be 56MB (davit.app/contents/macos/davit). That seems like a surprising amount of compression for a binary - embedded assets maybe? Possibly this is normal for mac apps though?

A lot of Mac apps compress like this. Not so long ago, it was pretty common to download a 3-400mb dmg file that decompresses to a 1.5gb app package, for example.

A lot of the time that happened, when I checked it was because a lot of the assets were relatively uncompressed, so DMG-compression shrank them considerably. I haven't noticed the binaries themselves being this compressible.

But that's just "noticed", I definitely haven't paid much attention. And don't have a mac nowadays, so I can't go check my hard drive now.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm… how does one even pick between multiple vibe coded options? I like to vet my options before committing to new software but who knows if the authors are gonna support these in a month? I don’t want to waste Fable tokens to fix bugs myself when they crop up.

Ask fable to explore each project and pick the best one lmao Vibes all the way down

Funny!
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