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I don't recall overcoming long startup times in vi and vim. Did I miss something?

• itp 10y ago
  Emacs and Atom share the architectural aspect of implementing most of their functionality in a higher-level language inside of an execution environment. This has costs and benefits. vi had a much simpler structure and much more limited feature set. vim is obviously a much more capable/flexible editor and has scripting support, but is still predominantly written in C.
• omaranto 10y ago
  Not necessarily. You might just be extra patient, or not use many plugins, or only use well behaved ones that down slow down startup that much. I remember years ago when I used Vim I had pretty slow start up time for a while but narrowed the problem down to one plugin I decided I could live without (can't remember which one it was, though).