On: Why are my Go executable files so large?

[steveklabnik]

Small note, we don't use the C++ mangler (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2603), and did the upstream work in GDB to get it to understand things. (There's also more work to do: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais... )

That being said, yes, we see integration into the parent platform as being an important design constraint for Rust. I think Go made reasonable choices for what they're trying to do, though. It's all tradeoffs.

[kibwen → steveklabnik]

Indeed, though it's worth mentioning that the Rust mangling scheme is based on that of the Itanium C++ ABI.

[cesarb → kibwen]

For those who don't know, it's also worth mentioning that while it's called the "Itanium" C++ ABI (because it was designed originally for the Itanium), it's nowadays used for every architecture on Linux.

[loeg → cesarb]

Not just Linux, either :-).