If you truly wanted your app to just print out the one line then you could probably pick a different language. In this case you would only pick .net if you wer

If you truly wanted your app to just print out the one line then you could probably pick a different language. In this case you would only pick .net if you were making something complex enough to warrant the size cost in exchange for the perceived benefits. I mean comparing it to a raw native binary isn't an apples to apples comparison. What might be better would be comparing it to another VM based language like java / ruby / python / node. Where the size of the app is the scripts + the installed runtime. Your one line "console.log('hello world!')" node app may be less than 1k but with the size of the node binary added in it becomes more comparable.