Mason Green (Nov 11 2023 at 18:11): Mason Green (Nov 11 2023 at 18:11):Hello, I'm new to Roc and functional programming. Using the basic-cli platform, I just compiled the hello-world example and the resulting binary is 114 Megs! Anything I'm doing wrong here?
Brendan Hansknecht (Nov 11 2023 at 19:22):Nope, it is a bug with the basic-cli platform that is mostly fixed bug hasn't been cut into a new release.
Brendan Hansknecht (Nov 11 2023 at 19:23):#beginners > big executables has some context
Mason Green (Nov 11 2023 at 19:44):Brendan Hansknecht said:
Nope, it is a bug with the basic-cli platform that is mostly fixed bug hasn't been cut into a new release.
Ok, thanks for the link. I just tried rockLovesC and the binary is only 32k. Very nice!
I just picked up a copy of "Functional Programming Made Easier" by Charles Scalfani, which teaches with PureScript. I appreciate the goals and direction Roc is taking, and I'm considering learning with Roc as a substitute.
One suggestion for the project: switch to the c-platform from the basic-cli platform for the tutorial. The huge binary size may turn some people off right away, as it almost did to me.
Brendan Hansknecht (Nov 11 2023 at 20:42):Hopefully, we will cut a new release very shortly and this will be fixed.
Richard Feldman (Nov 11 2023 at 21:49):I'm on mobile, but I thought we had a GitHub Action set up to do that?
Brendan Hansknecht (Nov 11 2023 at 23:00):Basic CLI is manually released by @Anton and a segfault has been blocking him from cutting a new release with the file size fixes.
Richard Feldman (Nov 12 2023 at 00:19):ahh gotcha. Do we have any idea what's causing the segfault?
Brendan Hansknecht (Nov 12 2023 at 00:23):I have something I hope is a workaround, but I have no real idea what is causing the issue. I was trying to debug, but the issue is really inconsistent. Small changes to the rust binary (like adding a debug print) fix it.
Anton (Nov 13 2023 at 09:35):I'm going to try Brendan's fix with the latest extra tests I added and if that all goes well I'll queue up a new release :)
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