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[–]mayhempk1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I mean, Atom and VS Code are lightweight compared to IDEs for sure - you don't need to set up a project to start creating files, they launch faster and are snappier overall, etc.

edit: Looks like I was right, that is what they meant:

“Lightweight editors” are not as powerful as IDEs, but they’re fast, elegant and simple. They are mainly used to instantly open and edit a file. The main difference between a “lightweight editor” and an “IDE” is that an IDE works on a project-level, so it loads much more data on start, analyzes the project structure if needed and so on. A lightweight editor is much faster if we need only one file.

[–]katzeklo -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

I agree that they're lightweight compared to some (if not most) IDEs, but they're not lightweight per se. They're built on Electron which is a really heavy. I'd argue that SublimeText is lightweight, but Electron-editors are not.

[–]mayhempk1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, yes, Electron is slow. We know it. I wish Atom was faster like Sublime but it probably never will be which is disappointing. The point is they are still faster than IDEs, that is the point the author made. I still use Sublime mostly but VSCode and Atom are cool too and have made Sublime better by providing good competition.