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400mb executable for a terminal text editor?

Modern developers have lost their mind

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Is it 400mb? Could be V8 for plugins.

Thanks for reminding me. Unfortunately yes, it's because of v8 (for Deno).

For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).

But - I just realized stripping it brings it down to 76MB so I guess that's ok! Will push a commit :)

Great! Just wondering maybe Bun (different JS engine) could do the job for plugins.

Anthropic Bun? :) I didn't realize it was an engine as well. I can take a look but we should wait and see where the acquisition takes it

"Bun is a new JavaScript runtime built from scratch to serve the modern JavaScript ecosystem. It has three major design goals:

    Speed. Bun starts fast and runs fast. It extends JavaScriptCore, the performance-minded JS engine built for Safari. Fast start times mean fast apps and fast APIs.
    Elegant APIs. Bun provides a minimal set of highly-optimized APIs for performing common tasks, like starting an HTTP server and writing files.
    Cohesive DX. Bun is a complete toolkit for building JavaScript apps, including a package manager, test runner, and bundler.

Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. It natively implements thousands of Node.js and Web APIs, including fs, path, Buffer and more."

- From the homepage[1] - it's a shame they use semantic html but no anchors for direct linking.

1. https://bun.com/

I think they're referring to bundling Bun into another program to use Bun as a JS runtime: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/12017

"Bun itself is MIT-licensed. JavaScriptCore Bun statically links JavaScriptCore (and WebKit) which is LGPL-2 licensed. WebCore files from WebKit are also licensed under LGPL2."

License compatible, probably safe from a rug pull?

Yes but I believe it would be a safe and lighter choice. The rug pull on deno is more imminent than elsewhere.

Maybe I should see if I can support either one (e.g. cargo feature flag) for insurance

> For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).

Incredible, the technical choice got overridden by popularity, leading straight to bloat

I see extension language choice as a user-facing UX decision, and convenience is a leading concern.

I'd argue using lua is is more convenient than typescript

What ever suits you, you didn't mind shipping a 400mb executable after all, so what do i know

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