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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by pasta on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:52AM (#16527707)
"Software was a lot less capable back then"

I think this is true-ish.

But when I compare Blender (330MB) and 3ds Max (6GB) I got the feeling some software is just better constructed.

Using a web browser as a text editor might not be the best solution...

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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by ahtu123 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:28AM (#16529027)
Following the current trajectory, the next cool text editor will ship with a full hidden Linux VM.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by whywhywhywhy on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:57AM (#16528854)
> some software is just better constructed

Exactly, TextMate and Sublime Text are both around 35 meg and both are close to feature parity for with Atom. It's only this more recent breed of software that is so absurdly bloated.

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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by mynewtb on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:28AM (#16528170)
3dsmax comes with lots of content though I guess?
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