Strip debugging information

[zer-far]

Using go build -ldflags="-s -w" reduces the file size of the binary by about 11 MB (from 39 MB to 28 MB).

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[thebaer]

Thanks for submitting this.

I'm not familiar with these build options -- is this going to make crash reports less useful? I think ideally we'd keep whatever info we need in the executable to get full stacktraces whenever the app panics, to be sure we can debug issues that come up.

[zer-far]

I'm not sure but according to https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/link, -s would "Omit the symbol table and debug information." and -w would "Omit the DWARF symbol table.".

[thebaer]

Got it. Before I can merge this, someone will need to confirm that when the application panic()s it still outputs useful information.

[zer-far]

I added panic() to cmd/writefreely/main.go:

Then built a binary without -s -w and one with and they had the same output:

[thebaer]

Thanks again for this! Merging now.