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When my laptop is booting I'm usually fetching coffee. Most of the time I just crack the lid, it wakes up, and all my editors are still running anyway. I probab
by shocks 10y ago
When my laptop is booting I'm usually fetching coffee. Most of the time I just crack the lid, it wakes up, and all my editors are still running anyway. I probably boot an app like Atom once or twice a week. Plenty of tools I use (PHPStorm, vagrant boxes, VMware) all take way longer than 5 seconds to load and that has no noticeable impact on my productivity or happiness.
It seems silly to me for someone to adopt a strategy of opening/closing Atom (instead of reusing an open instance) and then complain about how long it takes to boot. You don't park your car at red lights and turn off the engine, then complain about how long it takes to pull away when the lights turn green.
> Plus, the slugginess extends beyond startup time, into working with large files (were large = puny for other editors' standard) and other activities.
This I totally get. If this is someone's use case, they probably shouldn't be using Atom.
I don't mean to rail on you in particular, I just always found the "oh it takes so long to start" complaint to be a silly one. It's such a minor thing. Atom is really good for a bunch of use cases, it's a shame that people write it off for this stupid reason.
- brandonbloom 10y agoI fetch coffee when I want coffee. I don't plan my schedule around waiting for things that have no reason not to be completely instantaneous. I avoid any tool that takes longer than 100ms or so to start up. Anything slower than that is completely unacceptable at this point in the history of computing. > It seems silly to me for someone to adopt a strategy of opening/closing Atom (instead of reusing an open instance) and then complain about how long it takes to boot. That's not what happens. They looked at the tool, stated it doesn't meet their needs, explained why, and then _did not adopt the tool_. The Atom folks can decide they don't want those users or they can address their abominable startup time, but you can't suggest "change how you do everything" and hope to win friends or users.
- NeutronBoy 10y ago> You don't park your car at red lights and turn off the engine, then complain about how long it takes to pull away when the lights turn green. You didn't, until car startup time was optimized enough that modern cars do turn off the engine at red lights to save resources, then turn it back on when you put your foot down.