EDIT: Just had a look inside the app bundle to see if they were using Electron again. Looks like this is built round WebRTC instead.
EDIT2: Actually the actual 'zed' binary is just under 284MB, so maybe Zed's not built round the WebRTC framework, but just uses it for networky stuff ???
The binary is pretty big by itself.
Right now, this is just used for the screen-sharing feature.
> The binary is pretty big by itself
It is. One major reasons is that we're shipping a "fat binary" (x86_64 and arm64 build in a single file). We did this to simplify the download process for users, but now that the app is getting bigger, we should probably start shipping two separate DMGs, to reduce the download time. That would cut the binary size in half.
MicroEmacs for DOS was 50K.
du -hs /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app
42M /Applications/Sublime Text.app
This is about 6x as large, just for the main binary. Which pretty much always means it'll also eat a ton more memory, and probably burn lots of processor cycles while idle for no reason at all, given the way this usually works.
[EDIT] Maybe they're including debug symbols or something? Since it seems to be in beta.
>strings /Volumes/Zed/Zed.app/Contents/MacOS/zed | grep rust
Is it possible to install using nix or brew? In mac