My point was that many programmers have no conception of much functionality you can fit in a program of a few megabytes.

Here is a pastebin[1] of a Python program that creates a "Hello world" x64 elf binary.

How large do you think the ELF binary is? Not 1kb. Not 10kb. Not 100kb. Not 263kb.

The executable is 175 bytes.

[1] https://pastebin.com/p7VzLYxS

(Again, the point is not that Rust is bad or bloated but that people forget that 1 megabyte is actually a lot of data.)

Thanks for pointing this out.

It does seem weird to complain about the file size of a debug build not a release build.