[forrestthewoods]

> is the huge binary size

Can you quantify this? How big is too big? Ideally for a real program, and not an experiment to make the tiniest possible program.

On my Windows machine ripgrep rg.exe is just 4.2mb. Making that smaller feels irrelevant.

I’m not convinced that binary size is a real problem. But I’m open to evidence!

[cout]

It would be nice if it fit on a standard size 1.44MB floppy, but given that I haven't used a floppy drive in about a decade, yeah I guess it doesn't matter much.

[raoulkent]

Just out of interest, what kind of systems do you work on if you've been using floppy discs in the last 25+ years?

[cout]

I think my current motherboard does not have pins for a floppy drive, but every motherboard I've owned before that does. I just kept moving the floppy drive from chassis to chassis every time I upgraded just in case I needed it. IIRC the last time I used a floppy was either to archive old data to CD-ROM or boot the computer when I couldn't find a USB thumb drive.

I do still own my first computer, an IBM PS/2 Model 50Z, which still has its original floppy drive. Other parts I upgraded -- the 286 was replaced with a 386 SX/Now!, the 30MB ESDI was upgraded to 100MB, and it now has a full 2MB of RAM. I keep the floppy drive because it reads disks that no other floppy drive has been able to read.