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A fully self-contained natively compiled C# Hello World, including GC and everything can be as small as ~440 kB (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this programming humor?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which languages with a full runtime and memory management are in the same ballpark? Go, maybe? Obviously these are unimpressive figures for unmanaged languages.

[–] levovix 1 points 1 year ago

Nim can compile helloworld to 800 Kb (or, with some tricks, to 50 Kb). This includes static linked libc, garbadge collection, nim std/system, and no compression.