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Basically, for me tiny means it fits on a floppy 1.44 HD.

Naturally meaningless when people carry around USB sticks that might even hold a 1 TB, but alas.

Pretty much my baseline as well. Good example how experiences shape our thinking.

> Naturally meaningless when people carry around USB sticks

Do people do that? I think it was a decade ago, I thought people download from web nowadays.

Not everyone lives in areas where that is a convenient option.

[cries in TRS-80 Model III]

Ok, lets make it 178 KB then. :)

For comparison, I publish a CLI tool written in Dart, can compile to native anything including Wasm , the Linux binary is around 5MB and it does quite a lot.

A typical Go binary would be 2-3 times larger. A typical Node project would easily pull more than 6 MiB of just code, not counting the runtime.