Aah the joys of false progressivism. I hear that representing the absence of value as a number was invented about 6000 years ago, perhaps we should abandon tha

Aah the joys of false progressivism. I hear that representing the absence of value as a number was invented about 6000 years ago, perhaps we should abandon that as antiquated as well.. also, to wit, a Unix kernel of recent vintage: $ uname -msr OpenBSD 6.3 amd64 $ du -skc bsd.rd bsd 9664 bsd.rd 12912 bsd 22576 total vs, say, a Linux kernel of recent vintage: $ uname -msr Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 $ du -skc /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 /lib/modules/4.9.0-8-amd64 4152 /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 21616 /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 212248 /lib/modules/4.9.0-8-amd64 238016 total yes, there are likely more drivers in the latter. highly doubt there is an order of magnitude more though. not to mention some 'modern' npm+webpack monstrosity. that said, given the latter, i can hardly fault a <10Mb go executable as 'excessive', so you're right on that front.