I've searched for recent information on building compact Go executables, without success. Most information appears to be several years old.
My program: the standard hello world as found on Rosettacode.org. With Fortran I get an exe file under 100 KB. With Go the exe file is whopping 2400 KB.
My questions: are there compiler switches or pragmas that I should be using? Are there other tools or tricks I am not aware of (I am a beginner with Go). What are the future plans for Go regarding executable size? What is it like under Linux - same thing? What happens to exe files on large programs?
Background: I'm using go 1.5 installed on Windows 7. My project is writing (actually migrating from other languages) some command line programs. Having 20 or more large Go exe files eats up a lot of space. OK, I know space is cheap so I can live with it. However, I believe clarity on the matter will help many people.
