To the extent possible under law, Dmitrii Okunev has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to "A very synthetic, but very small hello world on Go. This work is published from: Ireland".
$ rm -f tinyhelloworld $ docker build -t build-go-tinyhelloworld . && docker run -v "$(pwd):/project" build-go-tinyhelloworld $ stat -c %s ./tinyhelloworld 91 $ ./tinyhelloworld Hello, world!OR
$ rm -f tinyhelloworld $ make all $ stat -c %s ./tinyhelloworld 91 $ ./tinyhelloworld Hello, world!$ hexdump -C tinyhelloworld 00000000 7f 45 4c 46 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 |.ELF............| 00000010 02 00 03 00 00 00 00 01 2e 00 00 01 04 00 00 00 |................| 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 01 00 e8 07 |.......... .....| 00000030 00 00 00 31 c0 31 db 40 cd 80 53 6a 04 58 31 db |...1.1.@..Sj.X1.| 00000040 43 6a 0e 5a b9 4d 00 00 01 cd 80 5b c3 48 65 6c |Cj.Z.M.....[.Hel| 00000050 6c 6f 2c 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 21 0a |lo, world!.| 0000005b elf.asm is just ELF-headers and a wrapper to call the main().
The binary could be even less if we place our useful data right into the ELF headers (see an example).
- Using Rust to make a 137-byte static AMD64 Linux binary.
- A "hello, world" in a 62-byte ELF using NASM.
A collection of articles explains some details about Go: