[fuzztester]

Yup. I've tested it for sizes of the generated binaries, versus C and Go, for a hello world program. C was smallest, next FP, last Go. Both C and FP were under 50 KB, IIRC. Go, much more, in the 1 MB range, IIRC.

I have also written a few small CLI and GUI utilities in FP and Lazarus respectively, and it was mostly a breeze. Had fun.

If you have Delphi or VB experience, it is very similar, conceptually, so fairly easy to pick up.

[api]

This is because Go bundles a big runtime in every binary.

[fuzztester]

Is there a way to not do that?

[cookiengineer]

You can also write allocation free Go, by computing everything on the stack. (Use pprof tool to analyze your code's allocations)

If you want smaller binaries without a runtime or GC bundled, you can try out tinygo [1]

[1] https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo