It's not overhead unless you are intent on only making a hello world app and stopping there. Assuming you are going to make something more involved, you are goi

It's not overhead unless you are intent on only making a hello world app and stopping there. Assuming you are going to make something more involved, you are going to use those extra features. Optimizing the size of the executable for the hello world case (outside of a fun weekend project) is insane - optimization should be done for the types of apps that are doing real work. I'm not sure why I'm saying any of this since you seem to be aware of it - your second paragraph says the same thing and completely contradicts your first paragraph.