> Look you can claim that "having the necessary metadata for garbage collection and reflection in a statically-compiled language takes up a significant amount of space" but without clear evidence of how much space that is, with proper accounting of byte usage, this claim is non-falsifiable and thus of doubtful value.

I respectfully disagree. I believe there is value in pointing out the false claims in a long blog post even when there isn't time to write a full-length rebuttal.