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Has anyone given Atom a lengthy comparison in performance on a Macbook Retina versus non-retina machines? I've owned 3 Macbook Retinas to date and every single
by jasonbarone 11y ago
Has anyone given Atom a lengthy comparison in performance on a Macbook Retina versus non-retina machines?
I've owned 3 Macbook Retinas to date and every single one has had sluggish behavior in many apps. Google Chrome and Electron apps seem to fall into that mix for me. I've yet to give Atom a lengthy test on a non-retina machine, but I can say that I definitely get the performance issues with Atom in regards to app and document behavior and type latency. Plugins just make it even worse. In fact, some plugins like linters and live markdown preview bring Atom to a point where it's literally unusable.
What the Atom contributors have done is quite amazing and the app has come a long way. I'd go as far as saying it has everything I want in an editor for a front end developer. I would use it as my primary editor if the type latency could disappear.
As of right now I basically just keep Atom up to date with my SublimeText preferences and give it a try on each release.