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When I was on Mac and in the earliest versions of atom, I suffered through the slow startup time and keystroke lag for the ease of customization (JS/coffee, JSO
by brianshaler 10y ago
When I was on Mac and in the earliest versions of atom, I suffered through the slow startup time and keystroke lag for the ease of customization (JS/coffee, JSON/CSON; vs custom DSL, C, Python or whatever). Altogether, I'm not very opinionated about text editors, so the pros and cons were pretty negligible. Upon switching to Linux, the performance were gone. I don't know if it was because I'd been using too old of a version on Mac or if OS X just has a latency penalty for using web views.
- bluejekyll 10y agoI personally don't have any perf issues on Linux or Mac, of which I use both regularly.
- sjellis 10y agoI've been using Atom since a fairly early version, upgrading with each release, and it has improved a lot. My guess is that SSD makes the biggest difference, though: startup is near instant on my current MacBook, but can visibly struggle on my older work iMac if there are Windows VMs hitting the (spinning rust) HDD.