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Re:Clojure Lisp and a modern GUI by delackner on Sunday November 02, 2008 @10:47PM (#351881)
Getting pretty off topic here, but "30+ meg... for the most basic things" is a totally unrealistic assessment of cocoa.

Sizes, INSTALLED, not from the compressed DMG:

An entire quicken-like 100% cocoa app: 6 megabytes,

Seashore, a streamlined graphics editor based on the gimp: 8.4mb

And for a "truly small" example, the "wakeup your computer and play an itunes song" alarm clock I first wrote to learn Cocoa years ago: 500k.

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Re:Clojure Lisp and a modern GUI by michaelneale on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @02:55AM (#354333)
Well the only ones I know are as a user - adium, various dinky little utils like twitteriffic. Downloads seem to be min 30 meg, and memory usage around twice that, minimum. I just have never experienced cocoa apps to be any common definition of "lightweight". Maybe they are poorly written apps, but they work fine, and I only use the common stuff.

"quicken-like" - well that means nothing unless it replicates the girth of horrible accounting rules that quicken has to adhere to - if its a "quicken like" accounting app, I guess it would not, so I don't think that really is a useful measure.

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