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> extremely slow and laden with performance issues

I've honestly not experienced this at all; though I'm running Atom/Nuclide with only the Babel language plugin extra.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Slowness in Atom varies so much from person to person probably because it's not in the editor itself, but in the plugins, and everyone has different plugins installed.

Right, that's probably the case. And funnily, the reason why I'm so picky about plugins is that I managed to make both Vim and Sublime Text run horrendously via plugin overload.

Sounds like both should do a better job of telling you which plugins are slowing your system

Atom has something to help with that:

https://github.com/atom/timecop

I've tried running atom several times over its history - first for go and again for elixir. Both times I've had the base version of atom with one or two plugins (go-plus / language-elixir & autocomplete-elixir). I found that, even with that setup, Atom was noticeably slower for all aspects of text editing (opening, navigating, typing, selecting, etc). I also found that the plugins did not work as well as the sublime text equivalents I'd been using (though that's not really Atom's fault).

I really like the idea of atom, but I've found the practical product less than compelling.

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