So No, the Pharo installation is not large its actually small . You think I am joking ? Ok lets take a look at some of the most popular programming languages out there
1) Pharo = 100 MBs 2) Cuis = 70 MBs 3) Python = 100MBs 4) Java = 120 MBbs 5) .NET = 240Mbs 6) Ruby , source code folder alone 92mb , with build 200mbs 7) Javascript , Firefox = 200 MBs and it does not stop there, because none of the above is similar to Pharo, they dont come with IDEs so lets take a look at programming languages packaged with IDEs 1) Visual Studio (C++, C#, Visual Basic etc) 7 GBs 2) XCode (ObjC, Swift , C/C++ [clang]) 13 GBs 3) Delphi = 2 GBs ( not including .NET) 4) Gambas , source code alone 60 MBs (Visual Basic 6 free software clone) , cant build it on MacOS 5) Cygwin , ranges from 100 mbs to 100 GBs Of course that does not mean that extremely small installs do not exist, they do An example is Lua, the Lua executable is only 300 KBs (300 times smaller than Pharo) but its super bare bones (no IDE, no GUI , no GUI API, no standard library, no version control, pretty much nothing)
