It depends how you define "runtime", though. If you use Rust strings, you may get a large amount of code included to handle them. Also, if you use malloc, that

It depends how you define "runtime", though. If you use Rust strings, you may get a large amount of code included to handle them. Also, if you use malloc, that adds a significant amount of code. It's true that languages like Rust have fewer runtime requirements than languages like Java but none of them are 100% proportional to the code you wrote.