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		pcunite 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 K... Back in the day I used to use UPX to compress my executables to achieve impressively small sizes.

jackjeff 9 months ago | [–]

I remember doing that for some custom installer I wrote. It felt like a good idea for 5mins until it got flagged by a bunch of anti virus software… had to sign the installer in the end and spent a lot of time reporting false positives.

pjmlp 9 months ago | [–]

Still common today when dealing with Go executables.

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