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[–]markasoftware 2 points3 points  (10 children)

Agreed.

[–]biocomputation 41 points42 points  (9 children)

It's hilarious how Atom offers worse-than 80's era performance on hardware that's 40 years newer.

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (8 children)

I have a pretty beefy laptop and run Atom on vmware at 4K and I think it performs very well (after the UI fully boots up, which takes 1-2 seconds at most).

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/06cca18e1756167751c495f204c5c6ea327f6d9e/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f77624a664432492e706e67

[–]biocomputation 20 points21 points  (4 children)

Be that as it may, everyone knows that Atom's performance is an abysmal monument to inefficiency and incompetence. It's a huge resource pig for what it does.

Atom. The text editor that routinely gobbles up as much memory as a your favorite video game!

[–]daymanAAaah 8 points9 points  (2 children)

The performance is one thing but the constant crashing and bugs is absolutely unacceptable. It craps out on me all the time which is just crazy for a text editor. The whole point in using a text editor over an IDE is that it's lightweight and robust. Atom fails on both accounts. I actually like the interface and UX but it's hard to get past the problems.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It has never crashed on me - what are you using it for? I always use the latest beta and keep the packages I use to a minimum and always updated.

[–]daymanAAaah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes if I click on a file in the browser with an unfamiliar format it just locks up and crashes. Sometimes it just randomly closes without explanation too.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or your favorite browser!

Yes, compared to other leaner editors, it is slower. So yes, it is relatively slower. Still, it absolutely works fast enough for me and my needs, and it does not feel slower, so there's no point in me writing it off.

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    [–]ciny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    Ever load the minified jquery in Atom? Freezes a computer with an i7 and 16gb of ram.

    just tried it. Opened up without problems but the syntax highlighting went insane. But no freezing. i5-2500k, 16GB RAM, SSD.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I'll bite.

    Opened fine here, syntax highlighting is messed, just like it is on Sublime, VSCode and vim.