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Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by rly_ItsMe » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:05 AM UTC

A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me?

I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

#22

Post by drtse4 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:13 AM UTC

rly_ItsMe wrote: post #21

A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

Try compiling it with gccgo that is able to dynamically link the go standard library (shared among your go projects) instead of building a single big binary, my guess is it should be just a few hundred kb :)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by 4ad » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:38 AM UTC

rly_ItsMe wrote: post #21

A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

Do you object to the hundreds of megabytes of your browser's code and dependant libraries too? Or since you brought up Python, why don't you object to the size of python's libraries and binaries?

7.9MB is nothing.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by rly_ItsMe » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 9:58 AM UTC

drtse4 wrote: post #22

rly_ItsMe wrote: post #21

A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

Try compiling it with gccgo that is able to dynamically link the go standard library (shared among your go projects) instead of building a single big binary, my guess is it should be just a few hundred kb :)

I did not compiled it by my self - I've just grabbed the binary provided by OP.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by rly_ItsMe » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 11:51 AM UTC

4ad wrote: post #23

rly_ItsMe wrote: post #21

A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

Do you object to the hundreds of megabytes of your browser's code and dependant libraries too? Or since you brought up Python, why don't you object to the size of python's libraries and binaries? 7.9MB is nothing.

Valid Point. Or not?

It took a bit longer but I wrote a bit about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119322