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424 points · 143 comments · sidharthkmenon

  1. factorialboy · · focus · HN ↗
    736mb on macOS

    /facepalm

    1. sidharthkmenon · · focus · HN ↗
      yes, totally, this is a legitimate concern and i hate this too as a dev. we made the choice to build on top of vscode for the mvp so that the code navigation experience would be normal / seamless (and hopefully, devoid of slop).

      as a comparison, vanilla cursor / vscode is ~1GB and zed is ~400Mb.

      in the future we will definitely rewrite this app as fully native and get it way, way down. in the meantime, we're working to get the size down in other ways (e.g. our diff viewer can definitely be optimized - it's 138Mb, yikes)

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