I don't understand application sizes. In MacOS R is 5.4 MB, but RStudio is 1.5 GB.
VS Code, a text editor, is 665 MB. MacVIM, a text editor, is 60 MB.
Microsoft outlook is 2.6 GB! In contrast, Apple Mail is 30 MB and Calendar 13.3 MB.
What are we putting in software? It feels like driving enormous pickup trucks.
@ojala A lot of apps, like VS Code, bundle a copy of Chrome within themselves and then the app runs within Chrome like a website would, with JavaScript and CSS involved. It makes it easier for web developers to build apps because they don't need to learn any desktop dev things and also the app runs on any platform that Chrome runs on.
These days browsers are basically a small OS so they're pretty big things.
@ojala https://www.electronjs.org/
It's become pretty rampant.
You can always tell an Electron app because it loads very slowly, is massive, runs on every platform despite being made by one guy and looks pretty.
Some of us think this is a bad thing.
@rimu @ojala isn't there also a consideration that space is not a problem anymore (not that I agree with that, but I can see someone saying it).
I guess you *could* optimise those apps for space whilst keeping the same features, but it costs time and money and effort, and the average customer/user will not notice.
Also, this made me think about 64k demos... 🤯
