If you truly wanted your app to just print out the one line then you could probably pick a different language.<p>In this case you would only pick .net if you were making something complex enough to warrant the size cost in exchange for the perceived benefits.<p>I mean comparing it to a raw native binary isn&#x27;t an apples to apples comparison. What might be better would be comparing it to another VM based language like java &#x2F; ruby &#x2F; python &#x2F; node. Where the size of the app is the scripts + the installed runtime.<p>Your one line &quot;console.log(&#x27;hello world!&#x27;)&quot; node app may be less than 1k but with the size of the node binary added in it becomes more comparable.