[Lapsa]

"an interactive text editor could be designed with as little as 8,000 bytes of storage" - meanwhile Microsoft adds copilot integration to Notepad

[pixl97]

I mean, it could be that small... but why isn't it?

This isn't a different question from "Why is Microsoft office everywhere"

And "Why are all the popular things gigantic".

Features, not speed, are what gets people to adopt software in the vast majority of cases.

[user____name]

I don't buy the features argument, there's plenty of bloated software today that ships with less features than a precursor and is a hundred times larger.