It exists but isn’t the same as a natively compiled binary. A lot gets packed into an AOT binary for it to work. Longer startup times, more memory, etc.
Go’s static binaries are orders of magnitude smaller than .Net’s static binaries. However, you are right, all binaries have some bloat in order to make them executable.
How? What I said was fact. All executables have some bloat that makes them executables. Golang’s being the smaller. Whether it’s shared lib pointer or static…
