Clearly a lot of people don't care if their text editor is using "a lot" of memory or "doesn't benchmark well" because all they're doing is writing code and run

Clearly a lot of people don't care if their text editor is using "a lot" of memory or "doesn't benchmark well" because all they're doing is writing code and running it occasionally. There's plenty of competition in this area, so if electron-based text editors have enough downsides, people will use something native (as your comment indicates). If that wasn't the case, and we could only choose from electron text editors, then we would have a problem. I think we should look at performance and resource usage as features on the same level as other features. Those things have to be balanced against whatever else the tool is bringing to the table. I used Atom for a while. But as my projects got bigger, I got to the point where I was bothered by its slowness, crashes, and choking on large files (not even that large, honestly). I find sublime much better in these areas, so I switched. Looks like a healthy ecosystem to me!