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I think people question why VS is so freaking huge when it's contemporaries are not. Most of that disk size is supposedly in the toolchain (requiring 2-60GB of
by Alupis 4y ago
I think people question why VS is so freaking huge when it's contemporaries are not.
Most of that disk size is supposedly in the toolchain (requiring 2-60GB of disk space alone[1]). Why is this so big? Modern toolchains from other vendors are not this large.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/system-requirements#microsoft-visual-studio-build-tools-2022-system-requirements https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022...
- pjmlp 4y agoI have spotted someone that has never done Apple, Google, UNIX or game console native development. It turns out native code for all kinds of OS workloads take some space.