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A comment on Ask HN: What happened to binary sizes?.

Re:Ask HN: What happened to binary sizes? by overint on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:04PM (#14144598)
A lot of modern desktop apps these days tend to run in electron or similar and require the overhead of large libraries/components (chromium for electron). A lot the bloat seems to come unnecessary duplication of resources, but since storage space and bandwidth is no longer as much of a premium I don't think it's much of an issue anymore.
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to binary sizes? by inetknght on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @02:16PM (#14150258)
It is still a premium, just not to the users that these apps typically target.

I, for one, like being able to install Linux on a 4GiB thumb drive. If your app doesn't work with command line parameters without a GUI and can't be installed in spare space on a 4GiB drive then your app probably doesn't target me at all.

Note that there are a TON of apps that do fit well within those requirements.

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