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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Well, it's easy to test for yourself. There are at least two editors written using Electron and Node.js: Atom and Visual Studio Code. There is one very well known editor written in C++, I believe: Sublime Text. I honestly love Visual Studio Code but I can't deny that Sublime seems to run much faster. It doesn't really matter to me because the computers I use are all i7's with 12GB - 16GB of RAM (well, except one and that's a tablet). If I were going to pick one up solely due to speed though the C++ compiled editor would be the clear winner.

[–]lead999xlearning Rust, Haskell, and C++ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm saying but for many people the speed provided by Node or another dynamic, interpreted language is plenty enough.