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For years and years it took a very powerful computer to get decent performance out of Emacs.

Emacs only seems speedy now because computers have finally caught up.

Either Atom will get faster, or it will add so much value it's okay being slow.

And then computers will eventually catch up, just like they did with Emacs.

I said this elsewhere but vscode's strategy won me over atom's. Vscode was faster and more stable with much less features which they gradually added over time. Atom had all the features, more lag, and has been trying to polish them since.

Texteditors must be fast and predictable. Tab support for vscode was it for me. Also, their ide must add overhead and yet still much faster than atom

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