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Comment by chrisldgk | Hacker News Reader

You might be able to switch to Bun or Deno with relatively little effort and create binaries that are probably a lot smaller (and maybe also faster) with each of their compile commands [1][2]. In the end I do also believe that a compiled language like Swift, Rust or Go might be a better fit though.

[1] https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/compiler/ [2] https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/executables

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FWIW, `bun` produced larger output files

    ~/P/s/ffmpeg-over-ip  bun build ./src/client.ts --compile --minify --sourcemap --bytecode --outfile ffmpeg-over-ip-client ; ls -lah | grep ffmpeg-over-ip-client
      [6ms]  minify  -90.92 KB (estimate)
      [3ms]  bundle  6 modules
      [44ms] compile  ffmpeg-over-ip-client
    -rwxrwxrwx    1 steelbrain  staff    56M Oct  6 16:53 ffmpeg-over-ip-client

and `deno` produced even bigger outputs

    ~/P/s/ffmpeg-over-ip  deno compile --allow-read --allow-net ./lib/client.js ; ls -lah | grep client
    Compile file:///Users/steelbrain/Projects/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip/lib/client.js to client
    -rwxr-xr-x    1 steelbrain  staff    65M Oct  6 16:56 client

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