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Just downloaded and opened Atom for the first time, and I have to admit the look and feel is amazing! Fantastic job to all those involved! However, one thing t

by smaili 11y ago

Just downloaded and opened Atom for the first time, and I have to admit the look and feel is amazing! Fantastic job to all those involved! However, one thing that stands out to me, the file size of Atom.app is 203MB!! How in the world can a text editor be that large? Compare that with MacVim, which is about 27MB.

guywithabike 11y ago
What problem does the extra 176MB present to you when you likely have 256+GB of disk storage?
- Karunamon 11y ago
  Who said it was a problem? I wonder this too - it's a freakin text editor. A very cool text editor, but hundreds of megabytes?
- harperlee 11y ago
  I only hace 64 in my tablet. Half of which the OS already ate. More to the point it is suspicious that such a basic functionality as a text editor has so much weight without reusing things with other programs. If every program measures itself by the same standards of size, we will all run out of disk...
- paracyst 11y ago
  This kind of reasoning is exactly why we have even more bloated, crap software these days
- jjawssd 11y ago
  Do not write software ever
zerr 11y ago
That's why you shouldn't let javascript developers produce desktop apps... The whole Chromium is bundled with Atom.
- wisew 11y ago
  No, a subset of Chromium is bundled with Atom: https://github.com/atom/libchromiumcontent https://github.com/atom/libchromiumcontent
xbryanx 11y ago
It's possibly more fair to compare it with an IDE, not simply a text editor. WebStorm as a download is 131 MB. Not as big, but in a similar class. edit: And the full WebStorm app is 293.5 MB
- nacs 11y ago
  If you want a better comparison, Sublime Text's installed size is 1/10th of the size of Atom at 23 MB.
mcao 11y ago
It's because the shell (http://electron.atom.io/ http://electron.atom.io/) is based on Chromium, which can be quite large if you include everything. But in the future, the size should get smaller. NWJS, which is also based on Chromium, is already making efforts to significantly shrink the binary size.

by smaili 11y ago

guywithabike 11y ago

What problem does the extra 176MB present to you when you likely have 256+GB of disk storage?

Karunamon 11y ago
Who said it was a problem? I wonder this too - it's a freakin text editor. A very cool text editor, but hundreds of megabytes?
harperlee 11y ago
I only hace 64 in my tablet. Half of which the OS already ate. More to the point it is suspicious that such a basic functionality as a text editor has so much weight without reusing things with other programs. If every program measures itself by the same standards of size, we will all run out of disk...
paracyst 11y ago
This kind of reasoning is exactly why we have even more bloated, crap software these days
jjawssd 11y ago
Do not write software ever

zerr 11y ago

That's why you shouldn't let javascript developers produce desktop apps... The whole Chromium is bundled with Atom.

wisew 11y ago
No, a subset of Chromium is bundled with Atom: https://github.com/atom/libchromiumcontent https://github.com/atom/libchromiumcontent

xbryanx 11y ago

It's possibly more fair to compare it with an IDE, not simply a text editor. WebStorm as a download is 131 MB. Not as big, but in a similar class. edit: And the full WebStorm app is 293.5 MB

nacs 11y ago
If you want a better comparison, Sublime Text's installed size is 1/10th of the size of Atom at 23 MB.

mcao 11y ago

It's because the shell (http://electron.atom.io/ http://electron.atom.io/) is based on Chromium, which can be quite large if you include everything. But in the future, the size should get smaller. NWJS, which is also based on Chromium, is already making efforts to significantly shrink the binary size.