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by wezfurlong 1186 days ago
The binary is statically linked and embeds several fonts for a consistent, cross-platform, out of the box experience.

The on-disk size != RAM usage, and on-disk size really doesn't matter on modern systems, unless you're on a very resource constrained system, in which case, you probably don't want a feature-heavy GUI anyway.