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Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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536 points helloguillecl | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jug ◴[20 Oct 25 21:39 UTC] No.45649741[source]▶
This could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab. Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in Electron and the cloud.

Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh

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blahgeek ◴[21 Oct 25 01:58 UTC] No.45651626[source]▶
> could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app

Wow, in a world dominated by gigabytes of electron application, people thinks 10 MB is the optimal size for a simple utility TUI app.

As a reference, (from archlinux repo), vim’s install package is 2.3MB, curl is 1.2MB, lua (the complete language interpreter) is 362KB

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1. colonial ◴[21 Oct 25 04:46 UTC] No.45652559[source]▶
To be fair, Vim and Curl are almost certainly dynamically linked, so they get to "cheat" a little. 10 megs is entirely reasonable for a statically linked utility intended to "just work" when you dump it somewhere in your $PATH.

Take the Micro editor. It's written in Go, and packs a fair bit of functionality into a single 12 meg static binary (of which a few megs is probably the runtime.)