> Originally Volt app was written in Go, but after a couple of weeks of development I decided to re-write it in C for two reasons: easier integration with exist

> Originally Volt app was written in Go, but after a couple of weeks of development I decided to re-write it in C for two reasons: easier integration with existing C graphics and UI libraries and much smaller binaries. The app size reduced from ~5 MB to ~100 KB. I'm always curious when people complain about binary sizes. Was there some reason the binary needed to be small? Or just based on some sense of 'largeness' and 'smallness'. It seems to me like rewriting in a 'less productive language' to save a few mbs of binary size that nobody cared about anyway is a pretty big waste of time. I don't mean to come across super critical, there are cases where binary size could be really important. Say you're on an embedded platform with minimal memory. I just don't /understand why it was something worth optimising over here... especially to the point of a rewrite