Amazingly, compared to the joke in https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html, my copy of vim is about twice as big as Patrick's alleged absurdly large copy of vim in 1991 (plus it uses 17 times more space in support files).
> my copy of vim is about twice as big as Patrick's alleged absurdly large copy of vim in 1991
I’m guessing you’re amazed positively, given how much everything else has grown/bloated in the last 30 years!
Actually, he’s talking about vi, not vim. You’re a whole ‘nother rung up the ladder with vim.
That's fair, since I could still run various more traditional vis and they'd be significantly smaller.