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What languages/frameworks for small, very low usage apps on limited hardware? (self.programming)
submitted 3 months ago by leisesprecher to c/programming@programming.dev
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I have a small homelab running a few services, some written by myself for small tasks - so the load is basically just me a few times a day.

Now, I'm a Java developer during the day, so I'm relatively productive with it and used some of these apps as learning opportunities (balls to my own wall overengineering to try out a new framework or something).

Problem is, each app uses something like 200mb of memory while doing next to nothing. That seems excessive. Native images dropped that to ~70mb, but that needs a bunch of resources to build.

So my question is, what is you go-to for such cases?

My current candidates are Python/FastAPI, Rust and Elixir, but I'm open for anything at this point - even if it's just for learning new languages.

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[–] leisesprecher 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Of course, but I'm not productive in it.

If I have to do everything myself, it will take more time to get it done. The trade-off is of course always control/speed vs convenience, but C is definitely too inconvenient for me.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

That's fair enough.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah definitively sounds like even more support for Rust and/or Python in this sense.

[–] mysteryname101@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I’d lean towards C# with AOT compilation if you’re not using reflection, you should be ok.