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Re:Go 1.17 Beta by slx26 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:56PM (#27464994)
No one is actively happy about it, but when you account for garbage collection and other runtime stuff that goes into a regular go program, plus no dynamic linking... you have to be happy with the trade-off. It's the right one for most programs we will ever make.
Re:Go 1.17 Beta by throwaway894345 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:25PM (#27465320)
> It's the right one for most programs we will ever make.

Unless you’re in the lucrative hello world industry. Or at least I assume it’s lucrative since so many people come here posting about hello world binary sizes—it certainly seems to employ a lot of people.