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This, and the inability to open large text files. You would think a priority for a text editor would be to be able to actually open text files and write correctly on them.

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If V8 can't handle it, there is no way Atom will handle it. Some would assess this as major software design issue (yeah I mean me).

Why can't V8 handle it? Too many pointers on the heap?

V8 has some limits on memory allocation. I don't know why. I guess the engine allocators are not optimized to handle very large allocations.

VS Code (which is also built on top of Electron) can handle large files just fine.

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