Screen is only 280Kb (armv7), statically compiled with curses. That's about 6-9 times smaller compared to tmux.

Yes, but I already require libevent and friends. The overhead, compared to "screen" was worth it, and I get split windows.

> Zellij is close to 50 megabytes,

That's a Rust thing. It's what happens when you statically link because you monomorphise everything.

And the Rust practice of everything needing at least 300 libraries. It's slowly getting to JS levels of insanity.

One of the reasons I went Zig for now

and this is a great example why rust will never be relevant in embedded development that actually matters

So I looked into this at one point. Apparently there are ways to reduce binary size.

When I first started learning Rust, my "hello wold" binary was HUGE.