Re: Still use Delphi
That's akin to compiling a Delphi application with package support. Frighteningly small application .exe sizes, with frighteningly large external package files (DLLs, in practice). .NET applications are largely the same.
The curse of .NET applications is not always the individual installations of various versions of the .NET support files (effectively DLLs) but how many sets of these there often wind up being installed on any one given system and therefore the multiple copies of these that exist on a system. it's understandable given how Microsoft never implemented a central library management system in the OS but also important in some ways given system security.
In any case, when it comes to loading up external libraries, and APIs, where does one draw the line as to what is considered the application size and not? In some abstract manner, the classic hello world in Windows 10 is roughly 4GB because it requires Windows 10 to be installed...
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