Editor recommendations for new users.

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 15:17:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner 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).

It isn't that gigantic in comparison. You can say the same thing 
in comparison with vim which is only a 2MB install size, 20MB in 
comparison is gigantic. The requirements are rather vague, you 
can interpret it in a number of ways. I wouldn't consider 200MB 
gigantic in comparison to 20MB cause there is literally no 
difference of use for me. You'd have to have a really shitty 
laptop for it to be an issue.