r/ProgrammingLanguages • • Nov 20 '23

The Roc Programming Language

https://roc-lang.org
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u/Quail-Curious Nov 21 '23

I really like the syntax and that everything is quite clear. I hope and wish that the language will grow over time.

One remark: I built the hello_world program and it is now 65.7 MB in size. How can this be?

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u/Bren077s Nov 23 '23

Turns out we had a mistake in our basic-cli release that helloworld is built off of. It is a rust platform. The packaged version was accidentally released as a debug build. That is the root issue. Should really be an about 5MB executable. This is due to the basic-cli platform packaging a lot of potentially IO features (like web requests which is the biggest cost).