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by brabel 1143 days ago
> the release build of js-in-rs is 54 MB, grep is 179 KB, and a basic hello world JS application compiled using Deno is 103 MB.

OMG. That's ridiculous.

Write the code in C or Zig, and use Lua for scripting, and you're down to under 1MB for the final binary.