FRIGN writes: > Well, what I noticed is the huge size of the compiled binaries. > 2.2M for a "Hello World"-program is an unreasonable demand. It's > possible to strip the size to around 1.2M by passing > -ldflags '-s -w' > to "go build". > This is quite inhibiting, but I'm glad to see this modern > language default to static linking.
Storage space is really cheap. If there is some reason that it is desirable for the binaries to be bigger as a tradeoff, I am all in favour of it (of course, if the binary size can be reduced without much complication, I'm also in favour of that, I just don't care an awful lot in non-embedded scenarios, where I would almost certainly use C anyway). Also, "Hello World" is not really representative of a typical program. Bear in mind that there are many things that you bear the cost of using once, and not again. I agree the size seems large, but with drives floating at around $0.00005/MB, I care little about it for non-embedded applications. I appreciate that my needs/use cases are not necessarily representative of others on this list.
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