On: Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more

[nineteen999]

> My experiments with a "hello world" program resulted in a 1.7MB binary and a directory of library files that occupied a further 91MB

lol

[ChrisRackauckas → nineteen999]

The caveat to mention here is that this is with the standard IO interface. If you use Core.println instead of println you get something substantially smaller. A limitation of v1.12 is that the handling of IO is not that great, and this is something that IIUC is being addressed in the v1.13 updates.

[leephillips → ChrisRackauckas]

I just tried compiling using Core.println and still got a 92MB build directory.

[pjmlp → nineteen999]

If you want to LOL even more, see Rust or Go with a full static linked binary without using something like UPX.

[nineteen999 → pjmlp]

I have, and what's worse, those ecosystems full on encourage static linking as a panacea, at least Rust used to.