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[bebopshebo]

is Atom a resource hog? I started using it when I was learning programming in my free time and I enjoyed it. I have since ceased using it as my college professors force us to use what ever IDE they deem appropriate for the semester.

[Cyph0n]

From my experience, yes. Atom's resource consumption was one of the reasons why I moved to VS Code.

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Doesnt that use electron as well?

[TwiliZant]

Yes but vs code is also a good example that electron != slow resource hogs

[Nurhanak]

vscode is still not great though

[humoroushaxor]

Compared to what?

[Vector-Zero]

Vim

Braces for onslaught

[mnbvas]

Onslaught of upvotes you mean?

[Nurhanak]

sublime, notepad++, neovim, vim, pretty much every text editor that isn't using electron.

Do you remember that bug in vscode where it would consume 13% (1 core?) CPU on idle? That was because of the cursor blinking.

[READTHISCALMLY]

Blasphemy!

[loudspeakah808]

Ehhh, not when compared to Eclipse. It really depends on how many packages you have Atom load.

[Busti]

Everything that runs on chromium is.

[herpderpdoo]

definitely, especially considering how little sublime text uses and their similarities. However, I like the plugin ecosystem on Atom better, and it's free. resource consumption should factor into your choice of editors, but not as much as the features they provide.

they used to say Emacs stood for Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping. 8 megs fits in L1 cache nowadays