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So it's now the hardware's job to adapt to poorly written software by "it should get faster"?

Sorry if this sounds salty, but I don't think it's justified to say performance issues can be swept under the carpet since the future hardware will be faster. Atom definitely needs to get faster, Visual Studio Code for example is built with the same underlying web techniques and performs way better.

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There is a little community that is trying to develop software with the opposite view: http://handmade.network/

I hope their efforts result in fast software we love to use..

I manage Atom at GitHub and I wanted to chime in here saying I agree! We're not waiting for hardware to fix this. My first PC was 386 running at 20 MHz. Modern hardware is insanely fast! Improving Atom's performance is positively a team priority. The overhaul of the display layer that shipped in Atom 1.9 represents a significant step down that path.

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