[musjleman]

The actual code in the repo definitely compiles to less than 10k. The rest is bloat from linking CRT statically.

[throwaway2037]

Above, someone shared this tip to compile down to 23,552 bytes. Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957984

Can you share how you can compile to only 10kb?

[musjleman]

By "actual code" I meant the assembly that the application logic compiles down to, not the entire executable. But as far as the entire package goes, compiling it using clang with some flags I can get down to 19.5k without any effort. If I wanted to waste time on this, ripping out the CRT entirely and getting it to 16k would probably take less than an hour.