The gc compiler produces notoriously large executables but Go programs need not be so large. A small program compiled using the tinygo compiler can be as small as 10s of kilobytes.
> The reference hardware platform is the PC Engines™ apu2c4 system board. It features a 1 GHz quad core amd64 CPU, 4 GB of RAM, 3 Ethernet ports and a DB9 serial port.
And BTW, my reply was mostly because of the context: people were talking about binary sizes for Go, but if you're using PC-like hardware you wouldn't care about binary sizes anyway (you can simply put more storage, even something like a 1GB SD Card would be way bigger than something like OpenWRT that can run with hardware as low as 8MB of Flash memory).