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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by castathrowaway on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:14PM (#18456808)
The KDB+ database has been around for 20 years.

The executable is ~ 500kb.

Enterprise software is gross.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by majewsky on Thursday November 15, 2018 @07:16AM (#18458624)
> The executable is ~ 500kb.

So... is this good or bad? A Hello World in Go is on the order of 2 MB. That doesn't say anything about code bloat, it just says that Go prefers static over dynamic linking.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by castathrowaway on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:02PM (#18484147)
That 2 MB might be messier than you suggest. It seems like people close to the project spent time trying to clean it up:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853

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