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by kazinator 3185 days ago
ANSI CL is what some 1100-something pages?

JavaScript is up to 885 pages. https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...

The C++ 17 draft: 1623 pages. https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...

C, which "is not a big language, and is not well served by a big book", according to Thompson and Ritchie's 1988 introduction in the K&R2, is up to 683 pages in C11. Almost triple the size of C90's 230 pages.

How about something non-language? USB 3.2 spec (just released Sep 22): 100+ megabyte .zip file download. Up from 2.0's 73.