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> VSCode is a 200MB download I presume that figure will be including a full browser, which is obviously inapplicable if you’re opening it in an existing browser, as you can and as the cited page is. For comparison, on Arch Linux, the code package is a 15 MiB download, 90 MiB installed, and depends on electron22 (that is, it doesn’t include a browser itself). > and is considered small in the desktop space. Citation needed. I don’t think anyone reasonable would consider it small, not by a long shot. Not as huge as some very large things, sure, but certainly not small. As for Google Docs, I hope no one uses Google stuff as an example of good or justifiable largeness. I can’t speak for Google Docs at all, but Gmail is one that I was historically somewhat familiar with, and around five years ago it was generally around 10× the download size and memory usage of Fastmail’s webmail on reasonably similar functionality (with one having more in one direction and the other more in another direction), and I know a more recent change made things at least twice as bad, though they could have clawed that back by now, and Fastmail resource requirements have definitely increased somewhat since. |