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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by chasil on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:23PM (#46516319)
The use of Go will definitely do that, as it prefers to statically link everything.

https://go.dev/wiki/Mobile

If we had an entire POSIX OS built with Go, then we would be back to statically-linked UNIX prior to BSD.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/golang-statically-and-dyna...

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by reactordev on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:25PM (#46516361)
can you build a Swift UI in go?
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by chasil on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:38PM (#46516535)
There is a single mention of Swift on the developer page that I posted.

"Note that you can also invoke GoHelloGreetings from Swift by importing Hello."

  @import Hello
  // ...
  let msg = Hello.GoHelloGreetings("gopher")
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by reactordev on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:14PM (#46517074)
Oh lord…
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