Posts Tagged “Binaries”

Go Binary Sizes Have Been Pretty Stable

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Tags:: Golang; Crow Eating; Binaries

By Jesse Donat on: Jul. 17, 2019 (Updated: Oct. 2, 2024)

In 2013 I wrote an unintentionally inflammatory post: Go Binary Sizes Are Growing out of Control. I had imagined no one would read it, but it took off. I wrote it because I noticed my binaries getting larger as I upgraded versions of Go and found it curious.

Much has changed since then; biggest of…

Go Binary Sizes Are Growing out of Control

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Tags:: Golang; Criticism; Binaries

By Jesse Donat on: Dec. 2, 2013 (Updated: Feb. 27, 2023)

Note: This is not intended as a "Go Sucks" post. I love Go. I am not saying the developers are lazy or dumb or any of the things Reddit has implied. I am not implying I could build a better compiler. Rob Pike and the Go team are geniuses whom I look up to. The tone of this was intended to be a light…