compiled code file size

[JohnnyK]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 17:27:30 UTC, Duke Normandin 
wrote:
> On Friday, 20-Sep-13 10:50 AM, Temtaime wrote:
>> C/C++ applications also carries on its runtime(mingwm10, msvc's
>> redist, for example).
>> If compiled with static runtime, msvc's hello world 
>> application uses
>> about 40 KB.
>
> +1

I don't think that static runtime comes with a garbage collector 
either nor does it come with a lot of other really nice features 
that come with D auto-magically.  I remember these same questions 
being brought up with C being compared to Assembly, Visual Basic 
vs GWBASIC, COBOL vs FORTRAN vs RPG vs C.  This discussion always 
comes up over and over again in the programming world.  Those of 
us that have come to D is not coming here because of the size of 
the executable compared to <your fav. language here>.  We came 
because D is fast, robust, easy to maintain, easy to understand, 
and just an all around practical language.  Duke unless your 
trying to build programs for embedded appliances I don't think 
this question really matters much in this day and age with 
Terabyte hard drives and gigabytes of ram on the modern computer. 
  Back when C was built we only had 64KB to work with so we could 
not have garbage collection, thread libraries, or even a string 
library built into the compiler.  IMHO who cares as long as it is 
reasonable and necessary to make time to market quicker and still 
produce a sound product.  In the end ask yourself what is 100KB 
to make your life as a programmer easier.