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by Test0129 1357 days ago
That's not true. I've warmed up a lot to Go over the last 6 months. I enjoy writing it and I find it useful. However, it still frustrates me that the base binary size is something like 15 MB. That being said, if you add a bunch of static linking into a C++ or Rust app the sizes may be comparable. But because Go frontloads so much stuff with it's forced static linking the binary sizes can become unruly.

You can imagine transfer costs in a CDN, storage, etc all mattering in the edge cases. Not everyone would have this problem but if your Go app is sufficiently popular and you need to distribute it you may see this as a problem.