I believe it was Benjamin Franklin that said [1], "Those who would give up essential [Disk Space], to purchase a little temporary [Convenience], deserve neither [Disk Space] nor [Convenience]".
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[1] close enough
I'm using the standard library
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Re: I'm using the standard library
#12To answer the OP's objection clearly - the usefulness of a single binary that works anywhere trumps any benefit from having a smaller binary, especially in 2014 when we have 1TB harddrives and 10Gbe connections. Having python installed as a pre-req on most OSes doesn't even seem valid to me. For the project OP posted, any idiomatic python programmer today will most likely use the "requests" library, which isn't part…
Isn't this some kind of age-old argument? Shared libraries versus fat binaries (or some other jargon). I'm at a loss for the details, but this whole thing seems really familiar.
Re: I'm using the standard library
#13Well, since technology grows non-linearly, so does our perception of resource usage. A megabyte is effectively meaningless when we talk about gigabytes of RAM or terabytes of hard disk space. Many websites nowadays require a megabyte download or more. I don't think it's odd that people treat 8MB as effectively "free", and I think it's a good thing because it allows us to liberally experiment with interesting new technologies (like Go) instead of hacking together obscure Unix commands like we used to.
Re: I'm using the standard library
#14This goes back to the argument between monolithic applications vs small single purpose utilities chained with pipes.
With a simple application that simply prints out the article titles, I get a 6.6M binary on my local machine.