in the age of 500MB apps (thanks to electron); it is refreshing to see a sub-50MB app again.

mystifyingpoi 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Reaper install is 13 megs. I have no idea how is this possible today.

PurpleRamen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Probably no big external dependencies or any assets. It looks like something full of handwritten code, down to the self-rendered UI-elements. Also it's written in C/C++ and assembler, so there is no unnecessary bloat shipped out-of-the-box.

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butlike 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because they're good

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peatmoss 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And it's good. It also seems to have the most flexible plugin system of any DAW that has decent level of usage.

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perching_aix 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

can just swap electron for tauri for example

	▲	ihujonigyin 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or you know… build a proper app.

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dmix 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On MacOS is went from 189mb->128mb for v3->v4 which is nice

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Mashimo 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now that I look at it, why is the arm64 that much smaller then x86_64?

36 vs 47MB

	▲	tosti 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just an educated guess, but perhaps there are optional dependencies missing in the arm64 version. Some programs are still broken or perform badly on arm64.

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LinguaBrowse 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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