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I've tried Atom repeatedly and found its key input performance and overall bloat to be far and above the worst thing about it. Sublime Text (2 or 3 for that mat

by Shank 10y ago

I've tried Atom repeatedly and found its key input performance and overall bloat to be far and above the worst thing about it. Sublime Text (2 or 3 for that matter) does an excellent job in the performance department, and that's where I consider it to "count" as far as a developer app goes. (I'm talking about latency on each key input. Pressing a key results in a character appearing on the screen faster in Sublime Text than in Atom.)

K0SM0S 10y ago
I've observed the same about performance, slight key input latency. On my home workstation (beast) it's unnoticeable, but it's an issue on less-snappy systems like many laptops out there. For the life of me I can't understand how the core function of displaying text in a freaking text editor isn't optimized to hell and back. And I love Atom, but I don't get why the latency. It's like the most core of core functions... There's no excuse in my book, like cold french fries, or dirty restrooms. (Other editors are plagued by this too btw, it's a not an Atom-specific issue.) I really hope this gets optimized eventually, because otherwise the whole JavaScript and CSS frontend (CoffeScript) is an awesome paradigm (I actually think this should be the way to make whole OS GUI moving forward, in a bid to make it easier to unify an app's appearance regardless of the platform. But I'm digressing).