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Re:Show HN: Ffftp – A Minimal FTP Client Built on Electron by pavlov on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:22PM (#13125342)
Electron's footprint is rather shocking. It's essentially an entire operating system being included with each small GUI utility.

For comparison, Windows 95's install package took up 19MB of disk space. So I guess Electron's 50MB is pretty efficient as far as operating systems go.

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