I don't think anyone cares. They could make the binary 15kb, no one would notice. Most of the times runs inside a pod that will feature a 500+ MB operating system anyway...
Go applications can be built into static self-contained binaries, which don't need extra dependencies. These binaries can run inside `scratch` Docker container, which doesn't take additional space. So it is easy to create small Docker images (less than 10Mb) with such binaries. See, for example, the following article - https://valyala.medium.com/stripping-dependency-bloat-in-vic...
