i don't understand (Score: 3, Insightful) by pete@pipedot.org on 2014-07-11 00:35 (#2ER) I don't understand how these projects balloon to such sizes - 169M extracted...its just a fancy text editor. and while only a poor comparison, (due to no windowed gui) VIM is 2.1M, and asfaik does way more, learning-curves aside. Or how just opening it with no files, it spawns 6 processes consuming ~35-40M each. I know its alpha, but i doubt you'll see it shrink considerable in size, if not grow larger. I've been seeing more and more of this lately, ginormous programs that offer little in proportion. its just a text editor. that kind of size says to me that something went wrong in the design process. Have I just missed out too much on modern development realities? or is this just another convoluted/lazy coding project? (no offense to any developers, its not personal - groupthink has its ways....) Re: i don't understand (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-07-11 01:02 (#2ET) I figure that almost all of that is the chromium base. nodejs is in there, too - but it can't be all that big.So I guess I'd chalk it up to "lazy" - but I figure that once you cover the stuff you want to show, you probably don't want to go trying to tear out all the stuff you don't need.As always, if you're worried about memory on your development machine, you're doing something wrong - gigs are practically free. I don't think I'd try to deploy Atom to an embedded system :-)
Re: i don't understand (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-07-11 01:02 (#2ET) I figure that almost all of that is the chromium base. nodejs is in there, too - but it can't be all that big.So I guess I'd chalk it up to "lazy" - but I figure that once you cover the stuff you want to show, you probably don't want to go trying to tear out all the stuff you don't need.As always, if you're worried about memory on your development machine, you're doing something wrong - gigs are practically free. I don't think I'd try to deploy Atom to an embedded system :-)