What is the point of installing Visual Studio Code, if build tools take 6.5GB?

empleat 126 Reputation points
2021-03-25T17:23:05.667+00:00

This must be some bug, or something. I don't think even Visual Studio Community does take 6.5GB! I installed VS Code and clang, but I need to install: "Microsoft C++ Build Tools" yet! It says it takes 6.5GB :O While I selected only C++ build tools. And I checked optional components and all are recommended actually, weird! Do I actually need to install all of these????????? ![81652-c-build-tools.png][1] [1]: /api/attachments/81652-c-build-tools.png?platform=QnA

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A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
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  1. Flaviu_ 911 Reputation points
    2021-03-25T18:03:22.577+00:00

    Actually, what you need from there is Windows 10 SDK, which is not small, indeed. You can live without other topics than Win10 SDK

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  2. empleat 126 Reputation points
    2021-03-25T19:04:05.413+00:00

    Damn another 4.5GB. What is point of Code, if you need install huge file anyway... I dislike VS Studio Community, because it is spyware and installs crap I don't need to my computer... At this point I should think about open source IDE...