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Well 50gb for a complete SDK and compiler suite and IDE isn't that large. Visual Studio, the comparable IDE for windows starts at around 20GB but can easily exc

Well 50gb for a complete SDK and compiler suite and IDE isn't that large. Visual Studio, the comparable IDE for windows starts at around 20GB but can easily exceed 100GB if you include all the features of the product. For Linux, a complete development tool chain for C++, Java, and Python with all the associated libraries will easily exceed 20GB. So Xcode is in the ball park. The difference between Xcode and Linux toolchains is that the latter are broken up into smaller pieces that can be independently updated and Linux has package managers that handle those updates gracefully.

smoldesu 6y ago
You're partially correct. It's been a while since I've used Visual Studio, but I've heard that a "full" installation will occupy close to 30 gigs, and the default install uses less than 2. Still pretty large, but the 100gb mark might be a bit of a stretch. It's definitely a stretch on the Linux side of things though, my dev toolchains and associated libraries barely occupy 2 gigs, much less 20. Maybe I'm not quite "enterprise ready" though ;)