[MStrehovsky]

Do you have data backing that up? Per https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame:

C#: 945 kB Go: 2174 kB

Both are EXEs you just copy to the machine, no separate runtime needed, talks directly to the OS.

[estebarb]

Sadly yes, we have data. We are migrating our C# SDK to Rust in part because customers want a much smaller dependency. And the AoT compiler didn't trimmed as much as we wanted.

[neonsunset]

(regarding size - there are tools like sizoscope to understand what is taking space, sometimes it’s something silly like rooting a lot of metadata with reflection referencing many assemblies or because of abusing generic virtual members with struct parameters in serialization, obviously if you can use Rust without productivity loss it’s fine, but usually problems like that take an hour or two to solve, or less)

But in either case binary sizes are smaller and more scalable than what Go produces. The assumption that Go is good at compact binaries just does not replicate in reality. Obviously it’s nice to be able not touch it at all and opting into Rust for distributing native SDKs. Go is completely unfit for this as it has even more invasive VM interaction when you use it as dynamically linked library. NativeAOT is “just ok” at this and Go is “way more underwhelming than you think”.