200MB download, 500MB install. "Lightweight text editor" There are - text editors - programmers text editors - integrated development environments - rapid

200MB download, 500MB install. "Lightweight text editor" There are - text editors - programmers text editors - integrated development environments - rapid application development tools Sorted by size, reversely proportional to feature set. Basically VSCode is an overbloated #2, that isn't good enough to be #3 and is nowhere near #4. You could've fit a full blown RAD into 500MB (Borland C++ Builder) 20 years ago.