I wouldn't say it's a giant runtime. A trimmed Hello World .NET app is ~11MB these days - not quite as good as Go, but you can make .NET apps that do quite a lo

I wouldn't say it's a giant runtime. A trimmed Hello World .NET app is ~11MB these days - not quite as good as Go, but you can make .NET apps that do quite a lot in under 20MB. And sizes will be going quite a bit lower with NativeAOT this year. https://www.awise.us/2021/06/05/smallest-dotnet.html https://www.awise.us/2021/06/05/smallest-dotnet.html