[bitmapbrother]

>I have a hard time being too impressed because more modern languages are doing this out of the gates and with far fewer hacks and more out-of-the-box tooling

I'm curious, is there another language that allows you to streamline its runtime by choosing only what modules your app needs?

[pjmlp]

This was already used in Lisp and Smalltalk to trim down images for production delivery.

Other than that, the majority of compiled languages do remove unused library code when static linking.