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Rust turns a lot of safety things 'on' by default.
Turning all of that off for a tiny program that doesn't need it such as hello world results in a comparable size.
This is a good talk on rust
https://youtu.be/VlSkZYBeK8Q
And this one goes over size reduction
https://youtu.be/b2qe3L4BX-Y
this is not due to safety but rather std. Set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto