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That's interesting to hear, because I've tried Atom three times now and the biggest deal-breaker every single time has been performance. Around the first relea
by bastawhiz 10y ago
That's interesting to hear, because I've tried Atom three times now and the biggest deal-breaker every single time has been performance.
Around the first release, there was noticeable lag as I typed. About a year later, tabbing through find results was just absurdly slow. More recently, opening a multi-megabyte JSON file with syntax highlighting was an inexcusably painful experience.
I really, really want to use and support Atom, but the performance compared to Sublime has just been atrocious (in my experience).
- SwellJoe 10y agoOh, it's still slow. Pathologically so in some cases. But, so is VS Code. But, Atom's speed has become manageable in recent versions. I rarely find myself unable to work with a big file in Atom. For code, I rarely see files bigger than a few thousand lines (and never produce files that large myself), and Atom handles them OK (not great, but acceptable, given the other benefits of the tool). VS Code is still better, and of course, vim smokes them both. But, there are trade offs, and Atom has a lot of cool features. I wouldn't use it for really large files, however. It really shows its ass in those cases (as the XML file test here shows).