a hello world is 8k in size, but it does link to libicudata which is 25MB which is for utf-8, other libraries such as libjpeg, libpng, libc, libX11, libstdc++ are pretty standard, with the largest libstdc++ is about 1.5MB, so if you can somehow get rid of libicu, your executable will be of typical size.
I wonder how easy it is to use this with languages like python ?
I'm also curious about what the lc-finder is.