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by skybrian 3386 days ago
Go has a small runtime? It says here [1] that "hello world" in Go 1.7 is about a megabyte. That's huge by web standards. Even if they cut it in half.

GopherJS apparently struggles with binary size too [2] (though that's not WebAssembly).

[1] https://blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size [2] https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/issues/136
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voidlogic 3385 days ago
I think its fair to point out that:

  1. without concurrency
  2. if GC end up being provided by the execution environment
  3. without the need to support networking and file-system (assuming this has to go through JS)
The go runtime for WASM could potentially be much smaller than the size of the standard server side runtime.
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voidlogic 3385 days ago
I forgot to note, if lots of page use this runtime and its loaded as a separate cacheable asset with a long TTL, the chances of it being cache are pretty great. Go didn't get popular for FE and I was writing a webapp FE in it I might stick it local storage too...
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