Ask HN: What languages/ecosystems offer the smallest container sizes? (Inspired by this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653340 and Whartung's observation that Linux forums used to bring up packaging the run time.) What languages can fit in the smallest container with a functioning e.g. echo server? More interestingly: What's the smallest production container you've seen and how was it accomolished? You can build scratch containers with just a Go binary, which packages the runtime in about 1.5MB, not much more for an echo server. With Racket (a Lisp/Scheme) you'd need to package a minimal OS like Alpine Linux and then minimal Racket (without the IDE etc.), giving you about 80MB. I don't know Rust, but I've seen some containers around 10MB in it. I expect they can get much smaller when not packing so much functionality. A quick Google shows a toy C container under 1KB! [1] What's rhe smallest you can do with the JVM? Or Nim, Zig etc.? Perhaps a Fortran or Ada container? [1] https://blog.hypriot.com/post/build-smallest-possible-docker-image/ |