[taywrobel]

Given that modern systems include containerization and dozens or hundreds of instances of applications bouncing continually as changes are made or network conditions change, deployment has gotten a lot more “chatty” than tossing a binary on a server and running it.

Reducing binary size makes a difference when the app is deployed to remote servers thousands of times under normal operation.

Storage and bandwidth is cheap, yes, but it adds up.

[closeparen]

My company runs Go and Java programs that locally compile in seconds to binaries / JARs that weigh tens of megabytes. But for production, we insist on spending tens of minutes building and copying around Docker containers that weigh gigabytes.