[ilanco]

> We offer pre-built binaries of `now(1)` for 64 bit systems (v5.2.3). They even work on devices without Node installed!

I wanted to install the now CLI for Linux and then realized it's over 40M in size. Can someone explain why a CLI tool needs to be the size of a browser.

[kiliankoe]

Because node and all of the CLIs dependencies are bundled within.

[ilanco]

Thanks.

[codefined]

40MB seems a little excessive? An entire mail application I created in Electron was 30MB which included the Node binaries. Not to mention it also had all of Chromium.

[grinich]

compressed or uncompressed?

femto looks cool (i work at nylas)

[codefined]

Compressed as an executable, using `electron-builder`. And thanks, femto is cool, but Nylas is awesome! It's the mail client I currently use and will almost certainly use for the foreseeable future.

Just thought I might toy with a minimalist email client, the thing that gets me about Nylas is it takes a while to synchronize emails.

[grinich]

yep we can always make it faster! it's always a tradeoff to whether folks want to use CPU or not. The faster you sync the more people complain about hurting battery life. Downloading >100k items over an archaic protocol just takes lots of processing.