A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

image.png

somehow this doesnt seem right? Why is the jetbrains folder taking 34GB of storage?

Most of that space is from the IDEs themselves, which seems about right. These are giant applications that have grown continually for 20 years, have lots of plugins with them, and they bundle their own version of the JDK with themselves.

And for an application like IntelliiJ, this isn’t too bad; IntelliJ Ultimate’s size is comparable to XCode, and the other IDEs are considerably smaller than XCode. It is not going to compete with VSCode or other lightweight text editors for disk space, because it’s goal is having lots of stuff built-in that would need a plugin from VSCode, so it bundles a lot more than those lightweight apps do.

In other words, the jetbrains folder is taking too much space because you want (and have) multiple jetbrains apps on your machine going to a total of 27.9GB

You also have multiple version if different applications which accounts for a the other large sum of disk space