[brainspider]

I come from an assembly background (but spent the last 20 years doing scripting languages), so this came as a shock to me.

[outworlder]

Now add up all the runtime stuff added by whatever scripting language you use and compare. Not many would come out ahead, Lua comes to mind.

The rust generated binary is statically linked and self-contained. It is pretty neat that it takes less than 2MB. In debug mode even, by the looks of it.