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Tinygo made a lot of progress over the years -- e.g. they've recently introduced macOS support!

It does indeed produce much smaller binaries, including for macOS.

yuriy@MacBookAir ~/t/tinygo> time tinygo build -o test-tiny main.go

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Executed in 1.06 secs fish external
usr time 1.18 secs 0.31 millis 1.18 secs
sys time 0.18 secs 1.50 millis 0.18 secs

yuriy@MacBookAir ~/t/tinygo> time go build -o test-normal main.go

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Executed in 75.79 millis fish external
usr time 64.06 millis 0.41 millis 63.64 millis
sys time 96.76 millis 1.75 millis 95.01 millis

yuriy@MacBookAir ~/t/tinygo> ll
total 5096
-rw-r--r--@ 1 yuriy staff 74B 3 Apr 19:17 main.go
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 yuriy staff 2.3M 3 Apr 19:18 test-normal*
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 yuriy staff 192K 3 Apr 19:18 test-tiny*
yuriy@MacBookAir ~/t/tinygo> cat main.go
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Printf("Hello world!\n")
}

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