alt Hacker NewsThanks for reminding me. Unfortunately yes, it's because of v8 (for Deno).
For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).
But - I just realized stripping it brings it down to 76MB so I guess that's ok! Will push a commit :)
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WhereIsTheTruth • today at 8:05 AM
> For extensions, the choice was either TypeScript (and get this bloat) or go with Lua and a much smaller binary (but less popular language).
Incredible, the technical choice got overridden by popularity, leading straight to bloat
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Great! Just wondering maybe Bun (different JS engine) could do the job for plugins.