> The title of the article ("My Go executable files are still getting larger") appears to be literally untrue, at least read as a critique of Go itself. If they are getting larger, it's because new code is being added, not because the Go runtime or compiler is degrading in some way over time.

Yes this is a fair assessment, although I find it surprising (and enlightening) that you refer to “a critique of Go”. At no moment was the intent to critique Go specifically; the entire analysis is made of observation of the results of combining Go with specific (and varying) amounts of source code.

In any case, based on this discussion I have decided to amend the title and emphasize in the conclusion that the absolute size of the code+data for a fixed amount of source code has decreased between go 1.15 and 1.16.

edit: This is relevant to this discussion: https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication/