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by GordonS 2646 days ago
.NET's '10 tonne' standard library is a decent part of what makes it so usable. And it's not exactly massive either - I can publish a standalone .NET Core app that's only around 30MB in size. For the usability and GC, I'll take that over C any day.
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naasking 2646 days ago
> I can publish a standalone .NET Core app that's only around 30MB in size.

Honestly, it shouldn't need to be that big. There's plenty of cruft even in .NET core.

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rndgermandude 2645 days ago
That will probably come done quiet a bit when illink gets out of alpha. It is basically a tree-shaker to eliminate dead/unused stuff from the resulting standalone binary.

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30

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naasking 2645 days ago
A tree shaking linker will definitely help a lot, but there's still some runtime baggage that probably can't be removed. For instance, dynamic loading and all of the related type and assembly metadata structures. I look forward to seeing what they can do!
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