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Emacs binary download page pointed me to Windows, but for comparison: 141MB: emacs-30.1-nodeps.zip 75MB: emacs-30.1-installer.exe (better compression? Content

by usef- 1y ago

Emacs binary download page pointed me to Windows, but for comparison: 141MB: emacs-30.1-nodeps.zip 75MB: emacs-30.1-installer.exe (better compression? Contents seem similar) 27MB helix-25.07-x86_64-windows.zip So there's still an Emacs distinction, it seems (*not that these size differences matter in practice -- helix's "bulk" is all in compiled language grammars, each of which is not loaded unless you use the language.)

usef- 1y ago
(replying to myself) Alpine package sizes: - helix 10.3MiB (+ 3 dependencies: musl, libgcc, sh) - emacs 14.5MiB (+ 1 dependency: musl) - neovim 18.7MiB (+ 9 dependencies musl, lua, tree-sitter, libint, libluv, unibilium, utf8proc, libuv, libluajit)) So it doesn't seem out of the ordinary for popular cli editors, if you're worried about smaller environments.