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I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

ptrckbrwn 10y ago
It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-text.png https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-... Source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
- tukelully 10y ago
  Wow. Significantly slower than the IDEs I used to think were bloated JVM beasts.
- flukus 10y ago
  Now I want to see the results from neovim, or anything with a client/server architecture. I'm surprised emacs is so slow (compared to vim) and I wonder if that explains it.
  - ptrckbrwn 10y ago
    The author of the article I posted has the executable he used to test available if you want to try it yourself!
- jfroma 10y ago
  This is one of the reasons preventing me to switch from Sublime. The other reason is slowness to open a single file from the CLI, it seems Atom doesnt reuse the already open shell like sublime does, there was a tracked issue for that one.
nkkollaw 10y ago
It's super-slow, and freezes many times more than Sublime. I like that it's more foolproof, though. Granted it's a product built for developers, it's nice to have a GUI for installing themes and plugins, and for configuring it. This aspect is what keeps me from switching to Sublime.
- MaxLeiter 10y ago
  Im not sure what you mean, Sublime has a GUI for installing themes and plugins. And is a config file really that difficult?
  - nkkollaw 10y ago
    I wouldn't say it's difficult, just cumbersome and with no advantage over a GUI.
roesel 10y ago
I have noticed at least 2 situations: 1. Opening large text files 2. Some frequent changes in one of the files in the tree being made by a different process
mrmondo 10y ago
Yeah it has this weird UI lag, it always feels like using a website rather than an app to me, one of the reasons I always go back to sublime text (3) after trying out releases now and then to make sure I'm not being foolish or missing out on something better. I like the idea that it's open source but I really don't like the idea of it being a heavy javascript app, on my slower laptop you really notice it's memory usage after a short while also.
chessweb01 10y ago
Atom is my editor of choice due to the Platform.IO extension for IOT development. On my machine, just starting Atom 1.13 involved two interruptions by message boxes saying "Editor is not responding" which had to be closed manually in order to continue with the start-up process. Those annoying boxes have vanished completely with 1.14., so there is some significant performance improvement.

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

ptrckbrwn 10y ago

It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-text.png https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-... Source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

tukelully 10y ago
Wow. Significantly slower than the IDEs I used to think were bloated JVM beasts.
flukus 10y ago
Now I want to see the results from neovim, or anything with a client/server architecture. I'm surprised emacs is so slow (compared to vim) and I wonder if that explains it.
- ptrckbrwn 10y ago
  The author of the article I posted has the executable he used to test available if you want to try it yourself!
jfroma 10y ago
This is one of the reasons preventing me to switch from Sublime. The other reason is slowness to open a single file from the CLI, it seems Atom doesnt reuse the already open shell like sublime does, there was a tracked issue for that one.

nkkollaw 10y ago

It's super-slow, and freezes many times more than Sublime. I like that it's more foolproof, though. Granted it's a product built for developers, it's nice to have a GUI for installing themes and plugins, and for configuring it. This aspect is what keeps me from switching to Sublime.

MaxLeiter 10y ago
Im not sure what you mean, Sublime has a GUI for installing themes and plugins. And is a config file really that difficult?
- nkkollaw 10y ago
  I wouldn't say it's difficult, just cumbersome and with no advantage over a GUI.

roesel 10y ago

I have noticed at least 2 situations: 1. Opening large text files 2. Some frequent changes in one of the files in the tree being made by a different process

mrmondo 10y ago

Yeah it has this weird UI lag, it always feels like using a website rather than an app to me, one of the reasons I always go back to sublime text (3) after trying out releases now and then to make sure I'm not being foolish or missing out on something better. I like the idea that it's open source but I really don't like the idea of it being a heavy javascript app, on my slower laptop you really notice it's memory usage after a short while also.

chessweb01 10y ago

Atom is my editor of choice due to the Platform.IO extension for IOT development. On my machine, just starting Atom 1.13 involved two interruptions by message boxes saying "Editor is not responding" which had to be closed manually in order to continue with the start-up process. Those annoying boxes have vanished completely with 1.14., so there is some significant performance improvement.