> If you're coming from C, I understand that 11MB seems like a lot to you. My issue is that the environment this thing is supposed to run on only has 30MB disk

> If you're coming from C, I understand that 11MB seems like a lot to you. My issue is that the environment this thing is supposed to run on only has 30MB disk space. > would you say that you prefer Go over Rust? my answer is similar to my siblings. what stops me from using Rust the way it's intended is 100% learning curve. Unless I get paid for the time I invest (on the job) I would spend my evenings or weekends on gaining experience in yet another system/language or whatever. Pretty much did that during the first 20 years in this profession. I get that type-safety is a massive advantage so hopefully I'll get thrown on a Rust project eventually and then I'll meddle through :). I'm not a fan of C++ especially for embedded. Nobody forces one to use exceptions but reality is, if I start an embedded project in C++, then the minute I don't pay attention somebody will end up refactoring and go overboard with templates or exceptions and then my flamegraphs look like the fires of hell. 2 things that I would love to get good at are Zig and Nim (in addition to Go where I'm far from an expert yet).