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The main binary also contains Tailscale’s GUI (onboarding, auth, menu, notifications, etc) so it does a little more than that.

Plus, it's a universal binary with x86_64 and arm64 slices.

Oh, if that's the case then 1.5 MB seems much more reasonable. Never mind.

That's pretty normal for statically linked executables unless you're aggressively stripping and removing things (which is hard to do)

Agreed. Strangely discussions of bloat sometimes trigger snarky replies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732782

bloated is relative and subjective but the only context where an 11MB binary could be considered bloated is embedded

hard to take seriously the idea that 11MB is bloated in a normal linux server or user desktop environment

If the program in intended by me to run on a small form factor computer with limited storage, such as a router, then the program nearly doubling in size is going to draw attention.