That makes no sense. I just started Notepad and it uses 180kb of memory. no kind of stripping will ever make VSCode even near that.

The extra tens of mbs of electron (zipped) is just because it is supposed to be easy to add those features and hack on it. Notepad needs nothing of that.

Heck, imagine what you could do in 4mb using only the things included in Windows. How large is notepad++?

edit: the minimal 64bit notepad++ is 5.8mb and the 32bit version is 4.5mb. That's so small compressing binaries or memory doesn't bring much.

There is no such thing. It is heavy even in the most cut down version compared to even Notepad+...

If anything, I'd like to see something similar to KDEs Kate editor (especially the vim support). Way more lightweight than vs code, but usable for large projects if desired. They could add support for their text editor protocol for the rest. There would be almost no overhead since the servers won't start unless you use them.

Definitely better than Candy Crush.