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I love emacs and I'd agree to categorize it as one of the most well developed and feature rich IDE. However I wonder: is it really "very small"?
by forty 3y ago
I love emacs and I'd agree to categorize it as one of the most well developed and feature rich IDE. However I wonder: is it really "very small"?
- ElectricalUnion 3y ago120.6 MiB for a entire Elisp development environment that casually happens to have a text editor built-in is pretty small to me. For a alternative development environment example, the The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is 191.4 MiB by itself and it doesn't have a text editor. For example Visual Studio Code is 89.6 MiB, but then you have electron25 as a dependency and that is 212.7 MiB extra. As a somewhat larger example JetBrains bundle it's own customized Jetbrains Runtime JRE with it's 3.5 GiB IDEA IDE. It's for sure no vim-minimal, but it's pretty lightweight as far as "IDEs" go.
- crabbone 3y agoEmacs, just the binary is 8 MB in my distro package. You can, of course make it smaller if you want. There are also miniature versions of it, like MicroEmacs, which would be even smaller. But, even if you add a bunch of Emacs Lisp code, that will put you in the lower 3-digit number of Megabytes. Which would be equivalent to a hello-world Electron app after a lot of optimizations.