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Re:Atom 1.0 by xbryanx on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:36PM (#9779525)
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

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Re:Atom 1.0 by nacs on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:25PM (#9780334)
If you want a better comparison, Sublime Text's installed size is 1/10th of the size of Atom at 23 MB.
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