Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries (2023)

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• internet_points 3 days ago
  > This gets the binary down to 64M for me (a further -23%).

  while on my system, /usr/bin/pandoc takes 199M; not bad.
• ashwinnair99 12 hours ago
  Haskell binary size has been a running joke for years. Good to see actual progress. The runtime was always the real culprit more than the code itself.
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  • whateveracct 6 hours ago
    With haskell-flake, it's pretty easy to get statically-linked executables. I've got them down to like 20MB with a single Nix stanza.

    https://community.flake.parts/haskell-flake/size I actually am not sure if haskell-flake is even needed here? I just learned about this from its docs, but justStaticExecutables looks like an upstream nixpkgs function.