I've been playing with Rust myself in my free time, and if you use Rust with the standard library a stripped executable should be smaller and more comparable to

I've been playing with Rust myself in my free time, and if you use Rust with the standard library a stripped executable should be smaller and more comparable to C than what you're seeing with the standard library included. Depending on your use case, you might be able to get away with just using the core library