Which, mind you, got me interested in go. I remember seeing a docker image of 4mb that ran a pretty well server. Not sure if it's still possible or what article it was.
But perhaps this thing is even more impressive: https://redbean.dev/
It's a single-file webserver that is also a zip file, and that's also a multi-platform executable (that's right, you can run the same file on Windows, Linux, BSDs, MacOS and more). It even includes a Lua interpreter, SQLiteDB, JSON etc.
And it's so fast it's unbelievable.
Version 2.2 was only 2.2MB , but looks like version 3.0 has grown to 5.5MB, not sure what happened!
These held entire graphical games and now we’re impressed when we can respond to an HTTP request in a binary that size.
Something got lost…
That and they have way more debug symbols than Comander Keen, probably.