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by 013a 2896 days ago
I mean, this is a limitation of Go. With JS, the "runtime" is in your browser, you've got a beautiful JS engine already. With Go, it would need that runtime bundled. Similar to shipping the JVM with your JAR.

This isn't a limitation we'd see with something like Rust.

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> Similar to shipping the JVM with your JAR.

The size of the Java Runtime Environment is around 80 MB (compressed). Even with Jigsaw and just the "java.base" module its still 13 MB (compressed).