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  1. Pretty nice. Got the app working across Windows & Mac with golang. Binary was 6mb, compared to a node binary @ 30mb (though not universal)↩️
    1. …in reply to @rem
      I kind of liken it to the 1990s era of Visual C++ apps (golang) to Visual Basic (node). The VB apps always needed a 6mb .dll which in that↩️
      1. …in reply to @rem
        day was enough to require file splitting across multiple floppy disks. 30mb minimum build size for a node binary just feels a bit…excessive.