You are trying to simultaneously make the case that Atom consuming a surprisingly high amount of memory is absolutely fine, but trying to use it to open a docum

You are trying to simultaneously make the case that Atom consuming a surprisingly high amount of memory is absolutely fine, but trying to use it to open a document which is 0.6% of its memory footprint is an unreasonable scenario. You can make one case or another, but not both at the same time. >Yes, I know, 6MB isn't "big", but for an editor which is designed to only work on source files which are AT MOST a MB, it's big. Notepad.exe also fails to open huge documents and you have to kill it. The explanation is quite simple: it's crap and everyone agrees. Notepad++ easily handles large documents without issues: it's widely considered not to be crap. Its memory footprint is nothing like Atom, (of course it has nowhere near the same capabilities) - but that's sufficient evidence to decouple size and quality. Even other Electron-based editors (e.g. VS code) disprove the "necessity" of devouring so much memory, yet they handle longer files.