This can be the case, depending on imports(looking at you, fmt). But it doesn't scale that way, I assure you. So you may hit 5 to 8mb early on in building a b

This can be the case, depending on imports(looking at you, fmt). But it doesn't scale that way, I assure you. So you may hit 5 to 8mb early on in building a basic 100loc webserver. Then at 100k loc you can be looking at 10mb. I've found most of our rather large webservers unoptimized, to be in the 10 to 15mb range.