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Since it's Electron I'll give it some slack, but I've switched to VS Code and performance is just so much better than Atom.

Atom with a few extensions installed takes it to a drag. I went through timecop a hundred times to speed it up and finally gave up.

Load time of what? opening a file? It is instantaneous other than really large files.

Yes once the program is already open it's pretty snappy. But I like to keep my desktop clean so I close / open it fairly often and it's startup time if just not on par I've found.

RAM you're not using is a waste of money ;)

That's why I make sure to include memory leaks in every program I write :)

The snapshot feature introduced recently makes a big difference to app start-up time.

I suffered through the slowness from the start, and it paid off. This is the first beta I've used in a very long time, and the difference between this and the current release version (1.6.x?) is noticeable.

I agree. I upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17 (and 1.18beta), and both feel much more snappy on my Macbook Air. Before that it has felt slow but tolerable and has now gone to barely annoying.