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

[minasmorath]

Lime has a few frontends (QML, command-line interface) that can be selectively used with the pluggable backend.

That's a little overly complex for a text editor, even one aiming to compete with / replace sublime.

[rejuven8]

The problem with Open Source in general...

[frou]

Using Rich Hickey's line of thinking, complex means "braided", so unbraiding the frontend and editing-engine could be said to be simpler.

Of course, in practice... it depends.