I feel like using Graal for the comparison is cheating a bit because it's so fundamentally different from what bun is doing. You need to compare it to tools that ship class files and a JVM, or something like PyInstaller which will have much much more overhead.

“The generated file is 7.7MB, which is quite impressive for a Java application since this executable does need a JVM.”

I assume this is a typo and they mean “does NOT”?

Part of that I imagine is the same problem deno has.

ICU locale data is pretty hefty and there aren't says to trim it down.

Yeah but no one distributes hello world.

I got 4Gigs on my phone and 4x that on my laptop. I don't care about 90megs.

What's the point in looking at size ? I can see two:

- want to email the exe, and you have limits on mail size - want to be ecofriendly, in that case stop watching netflix for 2 hours and you'll have your megs

If most executables on your machine used Bun, then it would be a bundled shared library on your system eliminating the bulk of the 90mb executable size. Just like the shared libraries the 13043 .exe files on your computer are currently linking to.