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> it was fast and stable There is no huge difference between Atom and VSCode. I was using Atom. It worked. It was popular. But Microsoft could afford bigger m
by timeon 4y ago
> it was fast and stable
There is no huge difference between Atom and VSCode. I was using Atom. It worked. It was popular. But Microsoft could afford bigger momentum - and took it. Then I used VSCode. I have noticed difference in speed only after I switched to Sublime Text.
- bhouston 4y agoI think you were not around when Atom was new? Being slow and unstable was a very common complaint and at the time the main solution was to switch to VSCode once it existed. Here is some old reddit threads at the time that reflects the mood very accurately: https://www.reddit.com/r/Atom/comments/58nkn3/any_way_to_speed_up_atom_i_recently_switched_from/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Atom/comments/58nkn3/any_way_to_spe... https://www.reddit.com/r/Atom/comments/2i2xs6/atom_is_a_really_sluggish_piece_of_software/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Atom/comments/2i2xs6/atom_is_a_real... https://www.reddit.com/r/Atom/comments/7dfozc/why_is_atom_so_slow_compared_to_something_like/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Atom/comments/7dfozc/why_is_atom_so... Even GitHub issues on Atom about it: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10188 https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10188 This is the reason why VSCode beat Atom, even though Atom I think was released first.