It's definitely fine with no problems. We used to do this too. But, it optimizes for something that only matters if you're in a space constrained setup. Turns

It's definitely fine with no problems. We used to do this too. But, it optimizes for something that only matters if you're in a space constrained setup. Turns out for "almost-all" web setups, a few extra hundreds of MBs don't matter even a few GB possibly. Even in AWS Lambda where cold-start is king, size doesn't matter[0] - I am the top answer. As long as you have fast starts and that's determined by code paths, libraries etc. So as long as your program readies itself quickly, having gcc and a few other std libs don't impact any key metric. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69512271/will-the-cold-starts-of-my-aws-lambda-function-take-longer-if-i-use-an-ecr-image/74383087#74383087 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69512271/will-the-cold-s...