On one hand, corporate-sponsored open source seems funded based on how many other projects depend on it. On the other hand, bloat is a natural consequence of an installation that automatically includes all possible features.Some of the things don't seem needed at all. Other things may not be needed if only doing CMake Tools builds.None of which are necessary to build and compile using cmake and gcc-arm-none-eabi, as the manual config in getting started provides.
According to the kitten named Scratchy, Eclipse is the reason VS Code became popular. Then I saw Purr entering RPG with SEU on an i System and marveled that vim isn't the only way to avoid both VS Code and Eclipse.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Tue Jul 22, 2025 2:35 pm