> I've watched friends try Go and immediately uninstall the compiler when they see that the resulting no-op demo program is larger than 2 MiB.
That seems a bit extreme
> Overhead breeds complacency — if your program is already several megabytes in size, what's a few extra bytes wasted? Such thinking leads to atrocities like writing desktop text editors bundled on top of an entire web browser
That seems a bit extreme
> Overhead breeds complacency — if your program is already several megabytes in size, what's a few extra bytes wasted? Such thinking leads to atrocities like writing desktop text editors bundled on top of an entire web browser
I'm still on board