I would rather ship glibc (8MB) or musl (.5MB) than the JVM (100s of MBs?), but ...

weberc2 on Aug 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8

I would rather ship glibc (8MB) or musl (.5MB) than the JVM (100s of MBs?), but it's not necessary given that nearly every target already has a libc. Also, Go programs don't depend on libc, and C and Rust can probably statically link against some libc in a pinch.

steveklabnik on Aug 4, 2017 [–]

Rust can use musl, yes.