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Whenever I sit down to help someone on the team that uses Atom, I am always frustrated with the performance of Atom, even compared to Sublime Text. Granted, I a
by diziet 10y ago
Whenever I sit down to help someone on the team that uses Atom, I am always frustrated with the performance of Atom, even compared to Sublime Text. Granted, I am always cognizant and sensitive of these small differences, but it feels as unacceptable as working on a laggy, malware infected computer.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoNot sure what kind of computers you're using. Atom has a slower than most start-up speed and occasionally file opening speed but beyond that it's very fast without lag / latency. Most of the editors inside of an electron shell have slow start-up and file opening times but everything else should be pretty quick.
- jjuel 10y agoIsn't that the point of an editor? That I don't have to use a bulky machine just to run it. If I have to run a machine with 16GB of ram to run the editor I am better of just running a full fledged IDE.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoI'm not sure I follow. You don't need a "bulky machine" to run a web application inside of an electron shell. They're pretty quick. Sure they use more memory and have a slower start-up time but it's not that bad. I run VSCode on a base level MacBook Air from at least 5 years ago (I think it was the 2nd generation?). My previous PC laptop that was about 8 years old also ran VSCode fine. My point is that some aspects of it, typically ones you do once or a small amount of times, are the points in which it is slow. The performance after those points isn't bad and I've never seen laggy or sluggish scrolling or text input (or at least I hadn't noticed it).