While your point is absolutely true, the rule of thumb in those case is that the growing curve in file size is not linear; while the very minimal executable already brings lots of things it doesn&#x27;t need, adding functionalities make it grow slowly (since a lot is already there).<p>Not saying this is not an issue (although it isn&#x27;t really in most fields, except for things like embedded), but that the 656 KB for &quot;Hello World&quot; is because of the &quot;upfront cost&quot; in binary size.<p>I have spent sometime developing in Delphi years back, and this was even more true with it (simple hello world GUI app was over a megabyte [create new project and compile], complex GUI app was barely above it).