You can make super small hello world binaries if you try. https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny

You can make super small hello world binaries if you try. https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html https://nathanotterness.com/2021/10/tiny_elf_modernized.html has a 120 byte hello world program for x86_64 ELF.