To add to this, if you are hobbyist that writes small programs that don't have huge numbers of lines of code, then then slowness isn't really a dealbreaker for

To add to this, if you are hobbyist that writes small programs that don't have huge numbers of lines of code, then then slowness isn't really a dealbreaker for you. I use Atom myself for python/django programs. My sister who is in school right now uses IDLE for all her neuro-linguistics based programming. I mean, if your needs aren't that big and your focus isn't the code, you don't really need a fancy editor like sublime.