We're still using the 'real' DOM. Eventually your diffs are just dom modification instructions. It's just that we generate those instructions instead of desig

We're still using the 'real' DOM. Eventually your diffs are just dom modification instructions. It's just that we generate those instructions instead of designing them ourselves. This gives overall good performance without being too imperative. But manual DOM manipulations, when done well, will still be way faster... https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624 https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624