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Now - can someone tell me why the hell the base installation of an IDE needs to be 2.6GB?

I refuse to believe that the most common way of building a mobile app involves running software that weighs 2.6GB.

I want computers with 512MB of RAM and 25GB of hd storage again. I want hard constraints again so developers are forced to write better code, and they can’t get away anymore with this crap that occupies whatever amount of RAM and disk you give to it.

As available hardware resources have gone up, code quality has gone down - to the point where your app for writing code weighs more than media-heavy apps like Blender or Reaper, a React/Vue hello world installs 100MB of node_modules, and running a Gradle build of a simple Kotlin project eats more RAM than a graphical-intensive videogame.