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coolaj86 opened this issue May 3, 2024 · 2 comments
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Compile builds with tinygo for reasonable system file sizes #406

coolaj86 opened this issue May 3, 2024 · 2 comments
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@coolaj86
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coolaj86 commented May 3, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It's hard to get Linux users / sysadmins on board with a "text editing" tool that weighs in a a dozen+ megabytes.

Describe the solution you'd like

Go will yield reasonable file sizes when compiled with tinygo:

(caveat: reflection isn't supported, so the default json package can't be used)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Wrapping git config in a Shell script. An ini parser written in Zig.

Additional context

It's not a thing that many web or cloud guys get, but in the sysadmin community, exorbitantly large binaries are a red flag. CLI text editors are expected to be kilobytes in size.

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(caveat: reflection isn't supported, so the default json package can't be used)

This caveat causes quite the problem - A large majority of code in dasel uses reflection

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Cenness commented Apr 10, 2025

upx can compress it to 5.8M

$ ./upx -9 -o dasel $(which dasel)
...
        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
  12772570 ->   5978768   46.81%   linux/amd64   dasel

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