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tremarley | 4 months ago

A 400mb+ install of bloat will upset many people

This needs to be justified asap to help people understand and reconsider installing it.

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landr0id|4 months ago

Strangely it's the actual binary's .text section that's about 400MB. Time to dive in!

The Rust compiler always produces quite large binaries compared to other programming language. I notice there's a (closed) issue on the Zed github [https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/34376],

> At this time, we prioritize performance and out-of-the-box functionality over minimal binary size. As is, this issue isn't very actionable, but if you have concrete optimization ideas that don't compromise these priorities, we'd be happy to consider them in a new issue.

pjmlp|4 months ago

Welcome to static linking of large applications.

The world moved into dynamic linking in the 1980's for a reason.

It is cool to advocate for a return to static linking when it is basic CLI tools.

hdjrudni|4 months ago

I was a little sus, so I checked: https://imgur.com/a/AJFQjfL

897MB! But it appears to have installed itself twice for some reason. Maybe one is an 'update' which it didn't clean up...? I'm not sure.

Edit: I just opened it and it cleaned itself up. 408MB now. I guess it was in the process of upgrading.

eviks|4 months ago

So the upgrades are not delta diffs either?

juliangmp|4 months ago

Will it though? I mean it's a lot for a "text editor", but much less than a classical IDE. And 400M is pretty negligible if you're on Windows, where your OS takes up dozens of GB for no reason.

ktm5j|4 months ago

Yeah I don't think 400M is really that big a deal. My `.emacs.d/` dir weighs in at over 1G and I've never thought twice about it.

For people who are serious about their text editors, 400m is a small price to pay for something that works for you.

eviks|4 months ago

If the OS is already bloated, that leaves LESS space for your editor!