alt Hacker News1328 bytes for a hello world? BLOAT!
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ptspts • 02/20/2025
My https://github.com/pts/minilibc686 can do printf-hello-world on i386 in less than 1 KiB. write-hello-world is less than 170 bytes.
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1328 bytes for a hello world? BLOAT!
My https://github.com/pts/minilibc686 can do printf-hello-world on i386 in less than 1 KiB. write-hello-world is less than 170 bytes.
That reminded me of the compiler that used to include a large poem in every binary, just for shits and giggles. You've heard of a magic number, it had a magic sonnet.
I thought it was early versions of the Rust compiler, but I can't seem to find any references to it. Maybe it was Go?
EDIT: Found it: 'rust-lang/rust#13871: "hello world" contains Lovecraft quotes' https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871