Zig[1] hello world is a 13 KB static executable: const io = @import("std").io; pub fn main() -> %void { %%io.stdout.printf("Hello, world!\

Zig[1] hello world is a 13 KB static executable: const io = @import("std").io; pub fn main() -> %void { %%io.stdout.printf("Hello, world!\n"); } It could be a lot smaller, but I'll have to fix an LLVM bug[2] or two. For comparison (these are all with full optimization and stripped): * Go: 1,006 KB, static executable * Rust: 411 KB, links to libdl.so, libpthread.so, libgcc.so, libc.so * C: 6 KB, links to libc.so * C++: 6 KB, links to libstdc++.so, libc.so * Nim: 26 KB, links to libdl.so, libc.so * D: 546 KB, links to libpthread.so, libm.so, librt.so, libdl.so, libgcc.so, libc.so libc.so is 1.9MB. libstdc++.so is 1.5MB. [1]: http://ziglang.org/ http://ziglang.org/ [2]: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27610 https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27610