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Panzerschrektoday at 5:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

I tried using it once by compiling it from sources. Even a release build is several hundred megabytes in size, which I find pretty wasteful. After a little investigation I found, that it has many plugins in form of a shared library, and each of them has pretty huge size, presumably because the whole Rust standard library is statically linked.


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whytevuhunitoday at 6:45 AM

Interesting, although I checked and on NixOS the binary is just 29MB. It was statically linked, with just libc left as dynamic.

I think 29MB is still huge for a terminal text editor, but nevertheless not "hundreds".

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small_scombrustoday at 7:12 AM

My local build of helix is 20MB, did you use the suggested flags on the install guide page?