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> If this was 20 years ago, atom would be built with java using swing. It would be just as slow and just as un-native. They did, and the result wasn't that bad
by cbm-vic-20 9y ago
> If this was 20 years ago, atom would be built with java using swing. It would be just as slow and just as un-native.
They did, and the result wasn't that bad: http://www.jedit.org/ http://www.jedit.org/
- Khaine 9y agoI meant in terms of performance and nativeness. I was thinking of like Netbeans and Eclipse, which were both great IDEs yet sucked with performance (i.e. start up time, memory consumption) and fitting in with system idioms.