Re: Let's look at a few Rust facts ...
The "other things" include an unwind mechanism that lets you get a nice stack trace. I mentioned you can turn that off to save memory - just abort instead of unwind. If you absolutely want small binaries you can do it. People are using Rust in embedded programming.
The point is that on a desktop, especially when developing code it is better to have useful diagnostics when things go wrong. And yeah maybe that overhead is wasted on a program that says hello. It's not wasted on a program that something meaningful. What you call bloat is actually a feature.
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