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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by lenkite on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:46AM (#45602947)
Probably due to treesitter modules for many languages compiled in. AFAK Treesitter's codegen is unfortunately a share nothing between different languages. So a dozen language parsers can easily cross upward of 200 MB.
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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by pooyamo on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:55AM (#45604748)
Binaries for dynamic libraries of tree-sitter (usually compiled with C compiler) would be smaller than that. For example this [1] .so bundle for 107 different grammars is ~137 MiB.

Unless by "compiled in", some in-lining of the C code into Rust codebase is meant.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/tree-sitter-langs/relea...

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