Ask HN: What would you consider an acceptable size for a command-line utility?

I am looking to write a command-line utility - it will be domain-specific but somewhat similar to PNGOUT [1]. End-users (running Windows) will download an EXE file to use on their own systems. Many languages are candidates to write such a utility, but one difference between them is the size of the generated EXEs: C++: < 500KB Lua: ~ 500KB LuaJIT: ~ 1MB Go: ~ 2MB Python: ~ 4MB JavaScript (V8): ~ 10MB PyPy: ~ 40MB (I have decided against using an EXE compressor such as UPX. Note that PNGOUT itself is only 38KB, in part because it has been compressed.) Which (if any) of these sizes are sufficiently large that they might put you off downloading the tool? Or, from a developers point-of-view, might put your users off downloading? [1] http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm