[Help] Why do app updates have download sizes almost as large as the apps themselves? - eviltoast

They seem to be too big for what devs claim to be a ‘minor patch’ and yet too small to suggest a complete reinstallation of the app. Is there some technical reason behind it? I would like to request an ELI5 for this.

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That’s fairly easy to do for interpreted languages, but it’s a lot more problematic for compiled apps that are distributed as a machine code binary.