Great question. There's and FAQ on that: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#why-do-rust-programs-have-larger-binary-sizes-than-C-programs https://www.rust

Great question. There's and FAQ on that: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#why-do-rust-programs-have-larger-binary-sizes-than-C-programs https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#why-do-rust-program... - tl;dr is that it is by default but you can slim it down to the same size as a C executable if you need to.