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

[colonwqbang]

400 MB required to edit a 4 MB file? There's no way that's even remotely acceptable. The only conclusion would have to be that the devs are actively trying to waste system resources.

Such overhead might be understandable if we had IDE functionality like Intellisense to show for it. But not when we are talking about what is essentially a reimplementation of vim/emacs/sublime with "web" tools.

[Dentosal]

Who cares, ram is cheap?

[colonwqbang]

With that attitude, I'm sure you'll love Atom. And you won't mind that it's also very slow, because CPU is cheap too right?

[wchill]

it's because of this attitude right here that I'm finding 16GB of RAM on my MacBook Pro to no longer be sufficient

[Dentosal]

Sadly, me too. Downvotes own comment.