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Steve Perkins
Personal blog · steveperkins.com · on HN as StevePerkinsprogramming
Steve Perkins writes StevePerkins.com, a personal blog at steveperkins.com about programming. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Steve Perkins's posts on Java 9 modularization and jlink as a way to ship zero-dependency native apps. They cite them alongside size comparisons with Electron, Qt and GTK.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-10-21
What Hacker News says?
>I remember there were talks about future AOT awhile ago - is this a thing now? Yes, AoT is now supported in Java out of box. Java after Jigsaw projects is modularized and you can build an executable file, like .exe or .bin which contains minimal JVM in it with JVM modules and your own modules and it's dependencies. You can read more about it here https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship... >If t…
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on “Electron 2.0.0 beta”Submitted Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps as a story · 332 points
HN discussionLooks like that's about 45 MB [1]. For comparison, Electron is about 80 MB. Qt starts at 50 MB depending on what you need, but a few years ago I got it down to 16 MB with UPX and a customized ICU. Gtk starts at ~20 MB and compresses to about half that with UPX. You could probably get those a bit smaller if your license permits static linking, but then you have to write C++. [1] https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-…
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on “Electron 2.0.0 beta”Submitted Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps as a story · 227 points
HN discussion"jlink" https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/tools/jlink.htm#JSWOR- GUID-CECAC52B-CFEE-46CB-8166-F17A8E9280E9 "Self-Contained Application Packaging" https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/deploy/self-contained-appl... "JLINK in Java-9" https://blog.knoldus.com/jlink-in-java-9/ "Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps" https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship...
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on “Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK”Submitted Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, there is a javapackager in java 7 and 8, but with jigsaw that comes with java9, it becomes easier: https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship...
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on “Server-Side I/O Performance: Node vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Go”Submitted Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think its fair to rely on Python for Linux Distros. Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat all bundle python with the distro. Where-as the JVM & Nodejs are generally seperate packages. Java 9 though, allows you to ship zero-dep golang style binaries [1]. https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship...
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on “Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal”Submitted An overview of .NET's new cross-platform changes, for curious Java developers as a story · 2 points
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