Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

Re:Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go by rly_ItsMe on Friday August 01, 2014 @05:05AM (#8118910)

A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me?

I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go by 4ad on Friday August 01, 2014 @05:38AM (#8118975)

Do you object to the hundreds of megabytes of your browser's code and dependant libraries too? Or since you brought up Python, why don't you object to the size of python's libraries and binaries?

7.9MB is nothing.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go by rly_ItsMe on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:51AM (#8119325)

Valid Point. Or not?

It took a bit longer but I wrote a bit about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119322

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go by drtse4 on Friday August 01, 2014 @05:13AM (#8118925)

Try compiling it with gccgo that is able to dynamically link the go standard library (shared among your go projects) instead of building a single big binary, my guess is it should be just a few hundred kb :)

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go by rly_ItsMe on Friday August 01, 2014 @05:58AM (#8119019)

I did not compiled it by my self - I've just grabbed the binary provided by OP.

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