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Zed includes node.js runtime and 100s of megabytes of javascript. It is essentially Electron.

I'm gonna need you to back that claim up dawg, because the only thing I see the node runtime used for, is for when the user loads a js project.

then it's basically just a proxy for node/npm afaik.

Complete nonsense.

~/.local/share/zed/

No one's debating your first sentence, they're debating your second.