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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by FpUser on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:32PM (#46519760)
>"I had no idea common apps used to be just 10-30 MB"

I wrote native Windows desktop application 10 years ago that still brings me some money. It has boatload of functionality and the size is 12MB. Competitors have similar app written in .NET. The install is about 1GB.

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by Marsymars on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:18PM (#46520845)
.NET apps are relatively small until/unless you start pulling in many/large dependencies.
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