Decided to try and compare the general base program size of several languages. I wrote a handful of Hello World programs, and stripped them of everything. Here's the final results in KiB:
strip -s -o ${lang}_strip
du *_strip
C: 16
C++: 16
Go: 1204
Hare: 220
Rust: 352
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