| ▲ | zapnuk a day ago | |||||||
If they'd drastically improved their tooling then yes. But sadly it's not that easy to create a statically liked binary in swift. The last time i did it it also included the whole runtime, and the resulting "hello world" binary was 50mb large. Annoying at least. For years I wished they got their stuff together, but at this point I'd be very suprised. They probably have too much technical dept already due to the support of XXX edge cases Apple need for iOS/MacOS development. | ||||||||
| ▲ | Terretta a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> For years I wished they got their stuff together, but at this point I'd be very suprised. This is a thing that's having work done, but still too large depending: https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/static-linux-ge... See here for sizes of various languages as of August 2024 when I'm commenting, but this is Swift 5.10 for Windows: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame Build actions here: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame/blob/master/.gi... What you want, instead, is Swift 6 for Linux, while e.g. Alpine, as of summer, still too large: https://mko.re/blog/swift-alpine-packaging/#:~:text=Package%.... In this thread on Swift for AWS Lambda, a dev gets a Linux static build to 5.9 megabytes: "Then, I stripped it and it's now 5.9Mb. That's an impressive 86% reduction. Given that musl libc.a is 2.4Mb and libc++.a is 10Mb, I find that 5.9Mb for an executable that contains both libc and the Swift runtime is not that bad :-)" https://forums.swift.org/t/aws-lambda-functions-and-the-linu... > They probably have too much technical dept already due to the support of XXX edge cases Apple need for iOS/MacOS development. See also embedded Swift: "Apple explains that Embedded Swift is a subset of the Swift programming language with a much smaller footprint (the binary can be around 10KB..." https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/06/13/embedded-swift-esp32... | ||||||||
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