alt Hacker NewsThe 9GB limit was not just the Rust stuff, that was for the entire docker environment with compiler, JRE, node, wasm toolkit, typescript, webpack etc. Yes, we need all of these to make a "true" reproducible build from scratch.
> to build a browser extension
It shares 99% of code with a desktop application; you can compile it to wasm while preserving most features. The extension wraps the wasm.
For reference, when making a single clean build, the `target/` dir reaches 700MB.
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> The 9GB limit was not just the Rust stuff, that was for the entire docker environment with compiler, JRE, node, wasm toolkit, typescript, webpack etc.
None of this is surprising or exculpatory. Demanding >9GB of disk space to build a browser extension is insane.
> we need all of these to make a "true" reproducible build from scratch
You need and them to reproduce your build. You definitely don't need all of them to build what you're building.