Editor recommendations for new users.

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 27 23:35:07 PDT 2017


On 28 August 2017 at 01:17, Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at 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' ;)
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