[OptionX]

The editor is 10mb. It's the grammar files that are represent the bulk, and those are optional.

And yes. Complaining about 100mb nowadays is ridiculous. You probably have larger logfiles sitting somewhere in disk doing nothing right now, regardless of your OS.

[bigfatkitten]

And it’s a 10MB static binary I can just drop into ~/.local/bin and have Just Work(tm)

[johnisgood]

I know, I was talking about a hypothetical text editor being 100 MB (without grammar files).

And those log files can be easily wiped or rotated (i.e. compressed, which can greatly reduce their size), as they should. You do not do the same with your other files, do you?

[johnisgood]

Why the down-vote? You don't rotate your logs? Thought it is commonplace. Rotating logs includes compressing old ones. Or are your log files actually over 100 MB? Why? What are you printing? Output of "yes"? :D

As someone mentioned, Emacs is over 100 MB, so it does not have to be hypothetical. That said, I use emacs (and vim) interchangeably and I have nothing against it. I have LibreOffice, too, which is also a behemoth, but so is Haskell with its modules that I see getting updated regularly. In any case, I still prefer KISS and the fewer bloat as possible.