That's why you shouldn't let javascript developers produce desktop apps... The whole Chromium is bundled with Atom.
No, a subset of Chromium is bundled with Atom: https://github.com/atom/libchromiumcontent
It's because the shell (http://electron.atom.io/) is based on Chromium, which can be quite large if you include everything. But in the future, the size should get smaller. NWJS, which is also based on Chromium, is already making efforts to significantly shrink the binary size.
It's possibly more fair to compare it with an IDE, not simply a text editor. WebStorm as a download is 131 MB. Not as big, but in a similar class.
edit: And the full WebStorm app is 293.5 MB
If you want a better comparison, Sublime Text's installed size is 1/10th of the size of Atom at 23 MB.
Re:Atom 1.0
by guywithabike on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:50PM
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What problem does the extra 176MB present to you when you likely have 256+GB of disk storage?
This kind of reasoning is exactly why we have even more bloated, crap software these days
Who said it was a problem?
I wonder this too - it's a freakin text editor. A very cool text editor, but hundreds of megabytes?
I only hace 64 in my tablet. Half of which the OS already ate.
More to the point it is suspicious that such a basic functionality as a text editor has so much weight without reusing things with other programs. If every program measures itself by the same standards of size, we will all run out of disk...
However, one thing that stands out to me, the file size of Atom.app is 203MB!! How in the world can a text editor be that large? Compare that with MacVim, which is about 27MB.