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The developers of VS Code wanted it to take up less space? I'm sure someone could reduce Atom to the same footprint

• ComputerGuru 9y ago
  I don't think anyone is questioning that; I believe the OP's question was more along the lines of "what wasteful resource management strategies on behalf of Atom's developers lead to the product consuming so much space and running so slow?"
  • glibgil 9y ago
    You misunderstood my answer. The only way you get to "I want this app to be no larger than 80Mb" is to make that goal and get to work. You cannot, for example, make your operating system boot faster from 30 seconds down to 3 seconds just by making things faster everywhere you can. You have to set the budget at three seconds and approach every problem from there. Atom is large because it has no size budget