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

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.