I'm not complaining that a Hello World exe doesn't come with its own operating system. It's just worth knowing when you compare exe sizes that C doesn't have a

I'm not complaining that a Hello World exe doesn't come with its own operating system. It's just worth knowing when you compare exe sizes that C doesn't have an order of magnitude more efficient code generation. It just had a >30-year head start to get its standard library shipped with every operating system. Other languages typically don't have that advantage, and either have to reuse libc, or take a hit from statically linking their own libstd.