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VSCode is also built with electron[1], so that doesn't excuse it. Atom's defenders always bring up that it was made with electron as the reason for it's slowness. Then, VSCode came along and invalidated that. Now, that leaves only one conclusion: Atom is slow because it was not engineered well.

And no, I don't think anyone is ready to stop pointing out that Atom is slow. Atom can implement a thousand killer features, but until they fix their performance problem nobody is going to switch back to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

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Meh.

I tried many editors when I decided which one to use—including VSCode—and Atom was the one where I was the most productive by a long shot.

Speed isn't everything. Atom is quick enough for the code I work on, and in other, much faster editors like Sublime Text I would be less productive and therefore slower. For instance, editing settings/packages in Sublime Text in unnecessarily nightmarish. Changing settings and installing plugins in Atom is a breeze.

Who cares if the editor is a few milliseconds faster when you're many minutes slower..? Just because of its excellent GitHub integration Atom is worth 100 times more than Sublime Text to me (even if it wasn't free).

> Who cares if the editor is a few milliseconds faster when you're many minutes slower

Me. I care. That little hang Atom does after saving a file gets annoying after a while.

Then you might give Sublime Text a try.

I get annoyed about having to switch to GitHub, for instance.

It's fine to have opinions, I'm just annoyed by the fact that every time there's a post about Atom the conversation gets hijacked by "VSCode vs. Atom" comments.

That's why I'm bitching.

I shall go update Atom instead.

That's fixed in the linked update: "Saving a file now happens asynchronously without blocking the UI, so that you can move smoothly from one task to the next."

> Atom's defenders always bring up that it was made with electron as the reason for it's slowness.Then, VSCode came along and invalidated that.

How so?

He's saying that since VSCode is built on Electron and it's fast, the Atom guys can't blame Electron anymore.

Where is the proof on vscode being "fast"? And compared to what? I can only talk about my and some of my friends' personal experience but it won't praise vscode's performance. It's maybe less glitchy(latency) than atom but it feels like it's still far from sublime/emacs/vim.

vscode is slow as dogshit. Its performance is barely passable on windows(making it just barely usable), but when you run it on linux its pathetic and glitchy. If Vscode could eliminate click latency and unselecting highlighted text latency/glitches, it might be an ok editor. I will say the features it has are impressive, but its downsides are outweighing its benefits for me on ubuntu 16.04.3 on the brightside, my replacement ssd will be here soon and i can return to windows 10 and vscode is much better on windows, since windows always has superior desktop performance to linux.

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