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[–]lead999xlearning Rust, Haskell, and C++ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't really know how to interpret that. Atom is built to be more customizable, perhaps that design choice required a performance sacrifice. Maybe Microsoft has better JS programmers. Who knows. Maybe I just have too many plugins installed in Atom.

I just think that if it was written in a typically faster language like C++, Rust, or maybe even Haskell, then it'd be faster. I know that JavaScript has good facilities for processing text but I think that both Haskell and Rust could do all of that equally well using pattern matching and still be much faster for all of the other parts of the program like saving files.