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drgath on Oct 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript

Funny. But to be fair, a Hello World in C compiles to a 27k binary. Yeah yeah, optimize this, leave out that and you can get it smaller. Still doesn't change the fact that Hello World is not the target use-case for either C or Dart. Dart is intended for very large applications (compared to JS), so the additional weight for includes isn't that big of a deal.

It also doesn't change the fact that Dart sucks. For other reasons though.

wes-exp on Oct 11, 2011 | [–]

On 32-bit Linux GCC, C hello world comes out to only 7 KB. Without optimization.

mkopinsky on Oct 11, 2011 | | [–]

Just as a datapoint (I did this test before seeing the comment), in 32-bit cygwin a hello world written in C compiled to 12KB. In C++, it compiled to 497KB.

riya on Oct 11, 2011 | [–]

hbgh

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