> but Hello World consumers TWO POINT EIGHT GIGABYTES of hard disk on my machine.
While yes, that's really bad, it's just temporary build files. The actual executable should be fairly tiny.
So, you built the application, created the installer... and your install on another machine is 2.8GB? I find that hard to believe.
From another response, their Windows installer is under 7mb, and much of that is MSI boilerplate.
Arguing "Rust has no dev speed penalty" in that context is just... no. You are damaging your own cause there, because all advocacy becomes laughable.