> even something seemingly simple like syntax highlighting can be surprisingly complex I was troubleshooting something with a colleague who was using Atom, and

> even something seemingly simple like syntax highlighting can be surprisingly complex I was troubleshooting something with a colleague who was using Atom, and every time he opened a new file, it'd take somewhere between 1 and 2 seconds before the syntax highlighting was applied. As someone who's in and out of files all day, that'd drive me bananas.