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Re:Janet for Mortals by dunham on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:33PM (#35393959)
I haven't used it beyond just trying it out once or twice. But a "hello world" application in the Idris2 language compiles to a 17kb racket file (the default backend is chez, but it also does racket and javascript).

If I run `raco exe` on this, I get a 57MB file. On mac, it's only linking system libraries. (For Idris2 programs, there is an Idris support library that is dynamically loaded.)

I haven't tested transporting it to another system (my test was on an arm mac, so I don't have another system to test that on).

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