| Rust has the NodeJS/Python dependency tree bloat problem. Unlike other terminal emulators, this project is entirely statically compiled, so the code for the built-in SSH client, serial port support, muxing server/client protocol, shader compilation engines, image decoding libraries, D-BUS clients, threading libraries, HTTP(S) (1.1/2/3) with several types of compression, and of course the GPU shader compilers and APIs. I built Wezterm on my machine and the binary is about 21MiB in size. About 12MB of that is code, the rest is debug symbols. 2MB of that is the Rust standard library and another 1MB is a LUA runtime. Then there are several image libraries that take about half a megabyte. The compiled source code itself is only 893KiB in my file. The rest is just dependencies and random ELF segments. So yes, the terminal emulator is about one Windows 95 installation in size, but that's all quite explainable if you care about the features. For comparison, I've run `debtree` on gnome-terminal (3.4KiB on disk) and the dependency tree is reported to be 691MiB. Microsoft's Windows Terminal is distributed in 18.6MiB - 66.4MiB (I don't know the compression msixbundles use if any) which is comparable. iTerm2 seems to be about 74MiB decompressed. Even `xterm` (the most barebones terminal emulator I can find) relies on 20MiB of dependencies. If xterm is all you need, then there's no need to download anything else. If you want more features in a terminal emulator, you're going to have to deal with larger binaries. |