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jug ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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supportengineer ◴[] No.45653264[source]
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
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1. mangamadaiyan ◴[] No.45653569{3}[source]
Indeed. It is the enigma of success in an industry with no franchise value.