# Could Someone Explain To Me the Desire for Small Julia Binaries?

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**Created:** [March 22, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-someone-explain-to-me-the-desire-for-small-julia-binaries/96484 "2023-03-22T22:55:15Z")
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#### Post date: [March 24, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-someone-explain-to-me-the-desire-for-small-julia-binaries/96484/16 "2023-03-24T10:07:34Z")

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Not a brand-new reason - more of a shared experience - but more often than not, I quickly made some simple scripts for my job, which couldn’t be easily shared to my fellow non-IT coworkers. This relates to tool distribution, but within an office.  
`PackageCompiler.jl` can generate executables, but which ~200Mo at a bare mimimum, this is no an option when coding “many” small helper programs.

Other reason - in link with containers - is that this would open wide the world of microservices (I think it’s a keyword here, not mentioned above).

Thanks for opening this topic, btw 🙂

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