Resource consumption is less of a concern to me than general 'snappiness'. Since I have a bunch of RAM, go ahead and use it all if I can have a good experience.

Resource consumption is less of a concern to me than general 'snappiness'. Since I have a bunch of RAM, go ahead and use it all if I can have a good experience. I don't actually use Atom, though I use Sublime full time. My biggest reason for not being able to use Visual Studio is that all functions, be it fuzzy search, regular text search, navigating tabs, even entering a character carries the load of the VSCode IDE. It must parse each character for chances to present additional information, which is great if that's what you want. Subjectively, I find VSCode too laggy to work at my usual pace.