Plenty of Scheme implementations produce portable-ish binaries too.
I've never really schemed, only Lisp'd in a common sort of way.
I've heard that some scheme things will compile out to C even.
Yep, Gambit not only compiles to C but also interoperates with it, much like Nim.
But you don’t need to give people Rust , just the binaries. The original dig is clearly targeted at Python/Ruby/JS
- a terraform distro is 59M
- a kubectl distro is 44M
getting rust installed on a windows machine required not just a rust distro, but a visual c++ library set over 1G.
at a certain employer, the size of the teams golang tool was well over 100MB.
So - 50MB to start with a full Lisp image? yeah, sure, no worries.