Comment by jerhewet
15 days ago
Steve Gibson, Gibson Research.
https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm
Just scroll down the page and look at the size of the completely self-contained executable programs. THIS is what Win32 is capable of. Something we always had with Win32 that was thrown away with .Net and C#.
And _please_ just spare me your opinions of how Steve Gibson "doesn't know anything about security". That's not what's important here. What's important is how freakin' small his full-on GUI stand-alone executables are.
EDIT: Just noticed this on his page.
Total Historical Count of files downloaded from this page: 52,292,601
.NET runtime has been bundled with Windows since Win2003.
And if you don't have to drag the runtime around, .NET binaries are even smaller than that, since the bytecode is more compact.