It's possible to write bloated software for any operating system or execution environment. It's not considered particularly interesting for very many Linux devs

It's possible to write bloated software for any operating system or execution environment. It's not considered particularly interesting for very many Linux devs. If you don't understand how debug information works, or where the bits that provide your language, library, and OS runtime live, then you might well be surprised that they exist at all. It is, after all, sufficiently advanced technology.