For Go, I downloaded the tar.gz installation, extracted then analyzed with WinDirStat because I happen to be using a Windows machine for my client today. On my

For Go, I downloaded the tar.gz installation, extracted then analyzed with WinDirStat because I happen to be using a Windows machine for my client today. On my personal machine I would have used QDirStat to the same effect. 200mb is taken by .a files which I think are precompiled standard library binary files: https://i.imgur.com/t18ueSX.png https://i.imgur.com/t18ueSX.png 100mb is taken by precompiled tools: https://i.imgur.com/OnX1g5l.png https://i.imgur.com/OnX1g5l.png My guess is that Go has quite the standard library and tools embedded with it, hence the size.