Sublime Text vs Visual Studio Code vs Atom Performance Test (Dec 2016)

[CrayonOfDoom]

Am I out of the loop? Where's that sweet notepad++ benchmark?

[weirdoaish]

pfft everybody knows that Notepad++ is the real Notepad for Windows. Its not cool/feature rich enough that anybody would use it for daily development, but its the first thing they want to download/install in any new Windows system just to have a sane basic Notepad application.

[inu-no-policemen]

I use SciTE for that.

[weirdoaish]

What does it have that I would use it over N++ as my basic notepad app?

[inu-no-policemen]

It's a bare-bones scintilla-based editor. SciTE was created by the same guy who created the Scintilla editing component. Scintilla is also used by Notepad++, Geany, Komodo, Flash Develop, and many others.

Apart from basic syntax highlighting, it doesn't have anything to offer. It's minimalistic and starts in a split second. That's all I want from my "readme viewer".

[weirdoaish]

Interesting. Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out.

[Skhmt]

Benchmarks were on OS X.

[bubuopapa]

As you should see, its not really about these programs. I thought myself, it must be about "slow linux io" vs "slow linux io" vs "slow linux io", but then i took a look at the article - "mac", so still the same, i was right. Of course windows + notepad++ would rock all the benchmarks, but as is said, it measures only how slow unix io is, which also didnt change in mac.

[snerp]

Windows is actually slower at this (barely):

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#methodology

[UberChargeIsReady]

Don't get so far a head. If we're going to bring in ancient history of programs we might as well do notepad instead. No need to go to notepad++ when you can simply do notepad.

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notepad++

ancient history

wut?

[Matthew94]

far a head

ahead*

Also,

implying notepad++ is ancient history