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		aborsy on July 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cheapest NAS I use Tailscale, but I’m amazed that the size of the ZeroTier app is 2.6 MB versus 23MB for Tailscale. How come ZeroTier is 10X smaller?

avtar on July 3, 2024 [–]

Tailscale uses Go https://tailscale.com/security#tailscale-is-written-in-go which might explain the larger sizes.

A cursory look through https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne shows more C++ and some Rust. Not sure how much static linking is involved here.

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