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How lightweight it is compared to other? Like default text editor?

• d-us-vb 4y ago
  When I was using macOS regularly, CotEditor was my go-to text editor before I learned Emacs. Compared to XCode, Netbeans, and Eclipse, it had a miniscule memory footprint (somewhere between 10 and 20 MB). It wasn't as fast as Sublime for some tasks, like regex search, but had built in syntax highlighting support for nearly every programming language still in use, and it was very easy to create your own themes, with an intuitive graphical interface for setting colors for different token types.
• jks 4y ago
  In terms of startup speed and editing feel, I think it's pretty much the same as TextEdit.app, and much better than any Electron-based editor.
  • asciiresort 4y ago
    Isn’t VSCode based on Electron?
    • jks 4y ago
      Yes, and it shows when you compare it to a native app like CotEditor.
• giuliomagnifico 4y ago
  Comparing it to default text editor I think is not correct, try to compare it to another code editor like VSCode, Nova, etc... it's very fast and simply, I love it.