Reducing Binary Size in Go: Strip Unnecessary Data with -ldflags "-w -s"

When building Go applications, the generated binary can sometimes be larger than what you might expect, especially when it contains debug information for the Go runtime and symbols for the linker. Fortunately, Go provides a handy way to reduce the binary size by stripping away unnecessary data. In this post, we'll dive into how to use the -ldflags "-w -s" option with go build to achieve this.