Why does this matter at all? Even a little bit? Even a tiny bit?

I'd way rather my programming editor be flexible, hackable, fully support unicode, and integrate with my workflows. When I need a hyperminimal editor I have vi, which the confusingly named CudaText is much larger than but not substantially more powerful at editing with.

Executable size comparisons are either an important part of managing core OS primitives or a complete waste of time.