Why is waiting 5-10 seconds for your editor to open such a problem?
Also because people often open/close tons of small files during the day instead of opening a project and working on it for hours.
Plus, the slugginess extends beyond startup time, into working with large files (were large = puny for other editors' standard) and other activities.
It is a shame people don't value users time like this any more.
It seems silly to me for someone to adopt a strategy of opening/closing Atom (instead of reusing an open instance) and then complain about how long it takes to boot. You don't park your car at red lights and turn off the engine, then complain about how long it takes to pull away when the lights turn green.
> Plus, the slugginess extends beyond startup time, into working with large files (were large = puny for other editors' standard) and other activities.
This I totally get. If this is someone's use case, they probably shouldn't be using Atom.
I don't mean to rail on you in particular, I just always found the "oh it takes so long to start" complaint to be a silly one. It's such a minor thing. Atom is really good for a bunch of use cases, it's a shame that people write it off for this stupid reason.
> It seems silly to me for someone to adopt a strategy of opening/closing Atom (instead of reusing an open instance) and then complain about how long it takes to boot.
That's not what happens. They looked at the tool, stated it doesn't meet their needs, explained why, and then _did not adopt the tool_. The Atom folks can decide they don't want those users or they can address their abominable startup time, but you can't suggest "change how you do everything" and hope to win friends or users.
You didn't, until car startup time was optimized enough that modern cars do turn off the engine at red lights to save resources, then turn it back on when you put your foot down.
Also 5 seconds is enough for my attention to maybe wander. Not every time but often enough to waste minutes of productivity per day. It all adds up. Amazon found that each extra millisecond delay causes customers to navigate away from the page. It isn't laziness just human nature.