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> Atom may not be as fast as some native editors but I've found it to more than fast enough for 99% of the code editing I do and the plugin ecosystem and overal

> Atom may not be as fast as some native editors but I've found it to more than fast enough for 99% of the code editing I do and the plugin ecosystem and overall user experience is better than any other editor I've tried. How big are the projects you are working on? When I was messing around with atom yesterday on a single small file it was great. But when I opened a project I'm working on, about 15,000 lines of C across 50 or so files, atom becomes unusably slow. 15,000 lines is pretty small compared to lot's of other projects and atom couldn't handle that. It's too bad because I like atom, I thought the plugin system was much easier than Sublime's and I liked the overall look and feel better than Sublime.

cageface 10y ago
I've been working on projects around 5k-10kloc without any issues. None of the individual files are more than a few hundred lines though. Atom doesn't handle really long files well but I consider those a sign of a need to refactor anyway.
- 2trill2spill 10y ago
  I didn't realize Atom struggled with long files. But the longest file in my project is about 1200 lines, the rest are a couple hundred lines or so. Your right about the refactoring but there's lot's of other stuff to work on as well so that probably won't be done anytime soon. Also my computer is due for an upgrade which adds to the unusability, it's a 2010 MBP with a 1TB 840 evo and 16GB ram. The CPU is definitely lacking though, it's a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.