It is not "much faster" at all, both are horribly slow. (I can see how one would be convinced VSCode is fast if they're comparing it to Visual Studio which has

It is not "much faster" at all, both are horribly slow. (I can see how one would be convinced VSCode is fast if they're comparing it to Visual Studio which has absolutely abysmal performance). Though I could be convinced with newer benchmarks. All I could find was this experiment from a year ago that shows Atom and VS Code opening within a fraction of a second of each other, but Sublime and TextEdit beating both of them by an order of magnitude: https://blog.xinhong.me/post/sublime-text-vs-vscode-vs-atom-performance-dec-2016/ https://blog.xinhong.me/post/sublime-text-vs-vscode-vs-atom-...