Nim binary size from 160 KB to 150 Bytes

The size of binaries in the Nim programming language seems to be a popular topic recently. Nim’s slogan is expressive, efficient, elegant, so let’s examine the efficient part in this post by exploring a few ways to reduce the size of a simple Nim Hello World binary on Linux. Along the way we will: Build a regular program into a 6 KB binary Disregard the C standard library and build a 952 byte binary Use a custom linker script and ELF header to build a 150 byte binary (1 byte smaller than in Rus...

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