Comment by steveklabnik

I don't think you can draw the conclusion that source length and binary size are correlated. For example, in Rust:

    #[derive(Copy, Clone)]
    enum Expr {
        Int(i32),
        Add(i32, i32),
        Neg(i32),
    }
    
    fn eval(expr: Expr) -> i32 {
        match expr {
            Expr::Int(x) => x,
            Expr::Add(a, b) => a + b,
            Expr::Neg(x) => -x,
        }
    }

Rust's enums can carry data. You can write the same thing in C, but because it does not have the enum feature, you have to do it yourself. They're sometimes called "tagged unions" for a reason, you use a union + a tag when doing it by hand:

    #include <stdint.h>
    
    typedef enum {
        EXPR_INT,
        EXPR_ADD,
        EXPR_NEG,
    } ExprTag;
    
    typedef struct {
        ExprTag tag;
        union {
            struct {
                int32_t value;
            } Int;
    
            struct {
                int32_t left;
                int32_t right;
            } Add;
    
            struct {
                int32_t value;
            } Neg;
        };
    } Expr;
    
    int32_t eval(Expr expr) {
        switch (expr.tag) {
            case EXPR_INT:
                return expr.Int.value;
    
            case EXPR_ADD:
                return expr.Add.left + expr.Add.right;
    
            case EXPR_NEG:
                return -expr.Neg.value;
        }
    
        __builtin_unreachable();
    }

I haven't actually compiled this, but it should compile to almost the exact same, if not literally the exact same, machine code. Yet one is way more verbose than the other.