>> Atom's primary innovation

They couldn't make it fast on modern hardware?

It's a significant indictment of the technology, and of GitHub's engineering that a product like Atom is slow on th high-end Dell hardware that my employer buys for me.

Atom's problem, which includes the astoundingly enormous amount of CPU and memory that it guzzles, is that the people who built it demonstrably didn't care about performance, didn't know better, or both.

Atom is a textbook example of how not to write software. I guess it's not only 'hackable to the core', but 'inefficient to the core'.

It's just bad software.