I 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 on

I 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.