On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 16:31:42 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:58:11 +0100, Craig Dillabaugh
<[email protected]> wrote:
Under 40 kilobytes! If you do the bare minimum you can get
down to about 1 KB, but at that point, you're actually
writing in mostly (inline) assembly rather than D. The code
in the link though supports a majority (though certainly not
all) of D's features.
Agreed 100%. But newcomers don't often get that far down
the chain of thought, they just see a huge exe and wonder
WTF! :)
Indeed.
Do you really think that is such a big issue?
Not really an issue, no. But newcomers keep creating threads
like this one time and again and who knows how many have been
turned away without finding out the whys and wherefores.
R
A hello wold in java, statically compiled, was 52Mb last time I
tried.
