[procone]

Are you really so strapped for disk space that 70MiB impacts your user experience?

EDIT: The parent comment is disingenuous: the application isn't even 70MB. It's only 70MB if you download the windows edition with vendored libicu (unicode, 31MB) library. It weighs around ~20MB on linux distributions, which is insignificant.

[not_a_shill]

Even worse this kind of critique is actively cancerous to new developers if they actually think that people outside of HN care about this.

Development productivity over everything. Features matter not app binary size.

[Beldin]

That mindset is why modern-day ultrabooks give the same practical performance as 15 years ago. All of the hardware advances have been gobbled up in the name of "developer productivity".

Check (eg.) the Elevated 4k Demo winner to glimpse what modern computers are actually capable of in the hands of good developers.

[integricho]

I don't agree with this, not by a long shot, this kind of mindset is why we have such a cancerous proliferation of overbloated and slow software today and it's just getting worse and worse every day.

[myankoo]

> Features matter not app binary size.

*.exe in Everything = 11 586 objects on this machine.

At 70MB a piece that would come out to ~800GB.