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why is anki for macos half a gigabyte in size. it's a fucking flashcard viewer

and ideally it should be a tenth or a hundredth of that

pro tip if you're bundling the qt libraries with your app only bundle the ones you're actually using, qt is an everything framework

better yet consider static linking (is this heretical of me to say)

@hikari statically linking requires paying the Qt company money

@erincandescent for a proprietary app, sure, but anki is open-source?

@erincandescent hell, the core parts of qt are lgpl, so even proprietary apps can statically link if they provide unlinked binaries (iirc that's the lgpl stipulation)

@hikari oh, for an open source app you're fine.

But probably the developers didn't build Qt from source

@erincandescent maybe they should build it from source tbh, dealing with the qt company's bullshit makes me want to do that if i need to use qt in a future project

@hikari Don't you know that modern apps need to include at least one copy of Chromium (and I'm not kidding about "at least" – I've got programs that use both CEF and WebView2).

@hikari Well Anki is also quite infamous between packagers as something that's horribly cursed.
Like for a while it used Bazel, which pretty much nobody wants to touch.

@lanodan bazel is a pretty popular build system though

@hikari Yeah, specially in corporate environments, making me think it's more a higher-ups choice than a developers choice.