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I tried Arc recently. It’s okay.

But why is the Arc Browser package size >700 MB? It’s double the size of Chromium! Where is all that bloat coming from?

Their interface on top of Chromium is written in Swift, so they're bundling all the stuff that is necessary to make Swift run on Windows, top of of Chromium.

It's >700MB on macOS too, though.

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