Breaking: “while Others Wait For Vs Code To Load, I’m Already Coding In Ecode.”

“Efficiency isn’t loud. It’s measured in milliseconds saved, megabytes spared, and distractions removed.”

Modern code editors promise everything—AI pair programming, cloud sync, marketplace extensions—but rarely ask: at what cost?

Enter Ecode: a native, open-source editor that weighs just 11–16 MB, launches in under a second, and respects both your system and your autonomy. No telemetry. No background services. Just a clean interface, an integrated terminal, and immediate access to your code.

And it’s not theoretical—here’s what it looks like in practice:

Please accept my sincere apologies for the reduced clarity of the embedded screenshots. This is not due to source image quality, but rather a limitation of the current image hosting platform, which applies aggressive compression or fails to preserve resolution—unlike other platforms used in previous articles. Rest assured, Ecode renders sharply and crisply on all supported systems, and the interface remains clean, responsive, and visually precise in actual use.

One of Ecode’s defining advantages is its remarkably small disk footprint. The screenshot below displays the actual folder size of the Ecode application after extraction—a mere ~16 MB on disk.

Many claim to be “lightweight,” but few deliver. Ecode does.

Compare this to VS Code, which typically installs 200–500 MB of binaries, dependencies, and hidden caches—even before you add extensions [[1]].

Ecode’s entire application fits on a single floppy disk (if those still existed). That’s not nostalgia—that’s intentional design.

Most cross-platform editors (VS Code, Atom, Discord, Slack) rely on Electron—a framework that embeds a full Chromium browser inside every app. The result? High RAM usage, slow startup, and frequent background updates.

Source: Dev.to