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It's actually a valid question: Both Atom and VSCode are built on Electron, both provide similar functionality, and one is a lot faster than the other. (Or _wa
by hibbelig 9y ago
It's actually a valid question: Both Atom and VSCode are built on Electron, both provide similar functionality, and one is a lot faster than the other. (Or _was_ a lot faster than the other?)
So it's valid to ask what did the VSCode people do to come to the different result?
On a related note, I wonder about the speed difference now, after Atom has done a lot of optimizations.
- krisdol 9y agoI'm guessing a lot of cruft built up on atom as it was iteratively built on top of developing front-end frameworks and transpilers over the years, compared to vscode which came on the scene much later when a lot of this had already settled. My guess it's just an older project with many times more contributions that accumulated legacy cruft that takes time to fully expunge. I'm also not convinced the feature set is identical. Atom comes with a lot of language support, customization options, and extensibility out of the box.