sizegame

Eh, at least for people consuming .NET apps compiled with NativeAOT, the experience is similar. Applications can be compiled as a single file with no dependancies. A hello world in .NET is half the size of one in Go: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame

C statically linked hello world binaries have never been 9MB or 13MB, they definitely weren't in the 90s. Also these are rust binaries. https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame

Do you have data backing that up? Per https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame: C#: 945 kB Go: 2174 kB Both are EXEs you just copy to the machine, no separate runtime needed, talks directly to the OS.

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame C#: 945 kB Go: 2174 kB

> For years I wished they got their stuff together, but at this point I'd be very suprised. This is a thing that's having work done, but still too large depending: https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/static-linux-ge... See here for sizes of various languages as of August 2024 when I'm commenting, but this is Swift 5.10 for Windows: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame Build actions here: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame/blob/master/.gi... What you want, instead, is Swift 6 for Linux, while e.g. Alpine, as of summer, still too large: https://mko.re/blog/swift-alpine-packaging/#:~:text=Package%.... In this thread on Swift for AWS Lambda, a dev gets a Linux static build to 5.9 megabytes: "Then, I stripped it and it's now 5.9Mb. That's an impressive 86% reduction. Given that musl libc.a is 2.4Mb and libc++.a is 10

You can get much smaller native binaries with .NET's NativeAOT nowadays: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame Funnily enough, I'm using C# to solve quite a similar type of tasks. It's a really pleasant experience.

Is AOT compiling your binaries [1] an option for you? The starting size of AOT compiled C# can beat Go in size [2] and from there it really depends on what you do and how you do it. Some simple ASP.NET server with https and routing can comfortably fit under 10 MB and there are compilation options that can help optimize further [3]. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/deploying/native-aot... [2] https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame?tab=readme-ov-f... [3] https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/deploying/native-aot...