hello world in D

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 16:31:42 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:58:11 +0100, Craig Dillabaugh 
> <cdillaba at cg.scs.carleton.ca> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Under 40 kilobytes! If you do the bare minimum you can get 
>>> down to about 1 KB, but at that point, you're actually 
>>> writing in mostly (inline) assembly rather than D. The code 
>>> in the link though supports a majority (though certainly not 
>>> all) of D's features.
>>>
>>>> Agreed 100%.  But newcomers don't often get that far down 
>>>> the chain of thought, they just see a huge exe and wonder 
>>>> WTF! :)
>>>
>>> Indeed.
>>
>> Do you really think that is such a big issue?
>
> Not really an issue, no.  But newcomers keep creating threads 
> like this one time and again and who knows how many have been 
> turned away without finding out the whys and wherefores.
>
> R

A hello wold in java, statically compiled, was 52Mb last time I
tried.