On 28 August 2017 at 01:17, Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote: > >> On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: >> >>> The following are a must: >>> no large install footprint >>> >> >> Visual Studio Code seems to be what you need. >> >> [...] >> >> Relative low memory footprint for the functionality ( compared to several >> IDEs that do the same ). >> >> [...] >> > > The (must) requirement was install footprint, not memory footprint, and as > Visual Studio code uses the electron framework[1] its install footprint is > gigantic (about 180MB vs e.g. TextAdept's 20MB). > I kinda feel like 'large' probably begins roughly when footprint is measured in GB... it's 2017 after all! Even in 2000 180mb was only 'kinda-big-ish' ;)