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No, the programming framework we use itself is almost 100MB (one hundred).

The only way it could ever get to less than that is if electron was shipped with windows (like .net is) but even then the framework would still take up space, it would just not be part of the Vortex download. Like with .net.

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That's not _entirely_ true, it has to do with the programming framework.

NMM for example was based on .Net, which is installed by windows.

Mod Organizer is based on Qt, Vortex on electron, both have to be shipped with the application and increase their size.

 

Software like NMM being smaller is a bit of a deception though. On my system .net takes up over 3 GB and is used by less than half a dozen applications I use.

Suddenly NMM isn't all that small anymore, it's just that its framework is hidden somewhere in your c:\windows directory and get's updated by the windows updater instead of with the next NMM update.

 

The only way to actually build very tiny applications that still have guis are "thin" toolkits like fltk or IUP which use the windows api directly for graphics.

The result is that they are obnoxious and slow to work with, are hard to get help with (for the developer), look extremely old fashioned with next to no customization features and usually can't share code with other platforms (yes, admittedly Vortex doesn't support Linux or MacOS either but that would be a manageable amount of work if we had the man-power, it wouldn't require a completely separate application).

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Will your programming framework improve in 2021 and decrease the size of package?

did you bother to read the answer given above? "improving" the framework doesn't ever equate to the size of the code that provides the functionality of the framework. So, yes the framework will improve via bug fixes and code improvements. Will it shrink to 10MB or so? Not ever.

Buy a bigger hard disk if you're concerned about disk space consumption.

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