[ploxiln]

Yes, but, trivial c programs statically linked with glibc can be in the ballpark of 500KiB, trivial c programs statically linked with uclibc or similar can be in the ballpark of 100KiB, and trivial go programs (always statically compiled) can be 2-5 MiB. They're huge.

[rif]

The go team is aware of this and I think it will improve soon: http://talks.golang.org/2014/go1.3.slide#1

[dkuntz2]

Which is what I was getting at...