[xienze]

That sounds to me like the size of Hello World. Start including more and more of the runtime and it’ll get quite a bit bigger, much the same as native Go binaries.

[kodablah]

IIRC, hello world that uses println is actually smaller. It's once you import fmt and unicode directly or indirectly (most libs) where those reported sizes start from.

[bradfitz]

It grows but not super fast. Like the other comment said, once you include the runtime and Unicode tables, that's a fair bit of it.