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D is usually dynamic although I try to be static for the most part. IIRC The runtime is linked statically (or not at all) but Phobos is dynamic by default

Rust compiles seem to blow up pretty easily, e.g. I was cleaning out my SSD the other day an I noticed that a rust GUI framework (Iced?) was sat on about 2Gb of dependencies despite being significantly incomplete (but very promising)

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> Phobos is dynamic by default

That depends on your distro. The packages from dlang.org all do the static link config out-of-the-box, but some distro packages dynamic link by default instead.

Given the size of that file, it looks static linked. It dynamic links libc, pthread, and a couple other OS-level things, but all D libs including druntime, phobos, etc, are statically linked.

Might just be difference in dependencies.

Oh boy I definitely understand you, in fact I built a Rust CLI tool to solve exactly that ;) https://github.com/tbillington/kondo

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