Amazing and I am also a fan of suckless.org. I am using dwm, dmenu, sic and st now. The binary size of st, rxvt and xterm are 184k, 2.7M and 640k (on x86_64 arch, not accurate). What's wrong with rxvt's binary size? st's binary size is not so small compared to its LOC.

Perhaps your rxvt is statically linked? Mine is 104K (Ubuntu 12.04, x86_64) vs. 424K for xterm.

The suckless community are die hard fans of the good old UNIX and C. They only release projects written in C and RC(a bourne shell clone ported from plan9).

Haskell?

I doubt the Suckless guys are using Haskell. http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/st.c

> * Not including the Haskell runtime.

Where did you get the impression Haskell was involved in any way here?