| ▲ | arcfour 10 hours ago |
| Surely there is a more effective way to write an app than to bundle an entire end-of-life browser and Node.js runtime into a 600MB monstrosity. |
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| ▲ | paxys 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Electron apps don't have to be 600 MB. VS Code is an entire fully-featured IDE and is a 90 MB download. |
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| ▲ | shawn-butler 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | VS Code package in my applications folder is 600+ MB. The Electron Framework.framework it contains is 400+ MB alone. I don't understand where you come up with your 90 MB figure? | | |
| ▲ | ethmarks 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | The VSCodeUserSetup file from https://code.visualstudio.com/download is in the 90MB range. Perhaps this file is just the installer and the actual system files are much larger? Or maybe your 400MB figure comes from a bloated install? Just speculating here. | | |
| ▲ | piperswe 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Presumably the setup file is compressed, and the installation on disk isn't |
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| ▲ | hluska 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Of course there is, but not every decision in computing is (or should be) about raw efficiency. |
