> people think it's "light" and "snappy" only because they're comparing it to Atom There's some truth to this, but I also prefer it to (my previous workhorse)

> people think it's "light" and "snappy" only because they're comparing it to Atom There's some truth to this, but I also prefer it to (my previous workhorse) Sublime. Which is a 100% native app, unlike Atom. > The reality is that Code takes multiple seconds to launch on my machine (a MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM) Something is wrong there, it really shouldn't. 1 second, maybe, if you're loading a large complex folder or something but unless you've got a crap ton of extensions I've never seen it be that slow.