I have a few programs written, including fs sync tools and a few other things. I guess the largest one might be 10k lines. The language is nice, although binaries are still large. I mentioned hello world because that was the trivial example. I saw the same effect with other real world programs.
I admit it might be necessary, but I wouldnt say sizes are comparable. Also, I was reading the discussion andrey mentioned by the time it happened. I guess it didnt reach this list until now because go didnt run on plan 9 until recently. On Mar 23, 2013, at 8:17 PM, Rob Pike <robp...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's pointless to complain about the size of "hello world". It's not a > real program. In Go's case it's larger than a C binary because the > libraries (and the presence of a runtime) are capable of much more > under the covers, but by the time you write a real program in Go > you'll find the ratio of Go binary to C binary isn't nearly so large; > the incremental cost to the binary of a Go source file compared to a C > Go file is negligible. > > A house is much heavier than a tent, but it also has a much stronger > foundation. > > -rob
