I'm on the team working on Pulsar, the community fork of Atom. You have no idea how much we hear "Atom is slow", "are you making it fast?" etc. I have honestly yet to work out exactly what is meant by it. Startup times, sure, you are never going to get Pulsar/Atom or VSCode to launch as fast as a terminal editor or a super lightweight native one but that isn't how I personally use that kind of editor - once it is open it stays open for a long time. Keystrokes, context menus, highlighting performance, I honestly don't see where this perceived slowness is.I'm not saying it isn't valid criticism but I guess the way I work with an editor just isn't the same as others who experience this.
maccard|2 years ago
Would you consider something like emacsclient's approach - a daemon running in the background that a window connects to?