What a strange time. I just read this sentence in an article about an HTTP client:<\/p>
\"Lightweight : Just 157~ KB in size\"<\/p>
Sorry but 157 KB is NOT lightweight. Especially for an alternative to \"fetch\".<\/p>
#WebDev<\/a> #JavaScript<\/a> #TypeScript<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-15:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/cedx\/statuses\/116063838134206516","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/cedx\/statuses\/116063838134206516","objectType":"note","content":" What a strange time. I just read this sentence in an article about an HTTP client:<\/p> \"Lightweight : Just 157~ KB in size\"<\/p> Sorry but 157 KB is NOT lightweight. Especially for an alternative to \"fetch\".<\/p> #WebDev<\/a> #JavaScript<\/a> #TypeScript<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@cedx\/116063838134206516","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"javascript"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"typescript"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-02-13:objectType=thread:nonce=0052c11dc3c7736e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12119249","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-02-13T19:18:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@cedx\/116063838134206516"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.bsd.cafe\/users\/gumnos","displayName":"Tim 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\ud83d\ude06<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-15:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.bsd.cafe\/users\/gumnos\/statuses\/116064864181385403","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.bsd.cafe\/users\/gumnos\/statuses\/116064864181385403","objectType":"note","content":" @cedx<\/a> @hi<\/a> <\/p> FreeBSD's fetch is definitely the tiniest of the HTTP clients on my systems:<\/p> gunnos@freebsd$ ls -sh1 `which wget fetch curl` gumnos@openbsd$ ls -sh1 `which wget ftp curl` So 157KB is smaller than the other non-fetch HTTP tools, but the omit the 7.384 GB of disk-space required by Node.js+modules 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crying","url":"https:\/\/friedcheese.us\/users\/feld","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"feld","displayName":"feld","note":"Up and not crying"}},"content":"@gumnos<\/a> @cedx<\/a> @hi<\/a> to be fair, libfetch.so<\/a> is a whopping 79264 bytes too lol","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-15:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/friedcheese.us\/objects\/4656b40c-2444-4a43-ac7c-d66f3824ebf5","object":{"id":"https:\/\/friedcheese.us\/objects\/4656b40c-2444-4a43-ac7c-d66f3824ebf5","objectType":"note","content":"@gumnos<\/a> @cedx<\/a> @hi<\/a> to be fair, libfetch.so<\/a> is a whopping 79264 bytes too 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21 \/usr\/bin\/fetch
217 \/usr\/local\/bin\/curl
373 \/usr\/local\/bin\/wget<\/p>
292 \/usr\/bin\/ftp
704 \/usr\/local\/bin\/curl
1216 \/usr\/local\/bin\/wget<\/p>
21 \/usr\/bin\/fetch
217 \/usr\/local\/bin\/curl
373 \/usr\/local\/bin\/wget<\/p>
292 \/usr\/bin\/ftp
704 \/usr\/local\/bin\/curl
1216 \/usr\/local\/bin\/wget<\/p>