no, it's bloated because that's the path of least resistance. it's easier to write code that builds on frameworks which build on libraries which build on virtua

no, it's bloated because that's the path of least resistance. it's easier to write code that builds on frameworks which build on libraries which build on virtual machines etc, and that is arguably even a better use of the programmer's time than doing everything from scratch, but the tooling hasn't kept pace to let us produce a final artefact that strips out all the bloat and collapses the layers into a small binary. (this is theoretically possible with a "sufficiently smart compiler", tree shaking, and a host of related techniques, but is impossibly hard in practice, given the current state of the art)