Comment by yesenadam

> Hello world in C will cost you a binary size of mind numbing 2000KB

2MB? I'm not sure where that number comes from. Maybe I misunderstand what you mean. I just tried compiling

    #include <stdio.h>
    main(){
      printf("Hello, world\n");
    }

with gcc on a Mac. The binary is 13340 bytes. Surprisingly big, but not 2000000 bytes! 1/150 that size.