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Sublime is still the fastest(opens instantly), and personally it looks better than VSCode with the new adaptive themes. Font rendering on MacOS is native in Sublime instead of the fake blurry stuff you get with Electron.

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Font rendering on MacOS is native in Sublime instead of the fake blurry stuff you get with Electron.

Wheee, I'm not the only one bothered by this! It's bad on Windows too, though Linux is fine. It affects all Electron based programs, including Chrome itself.

It is slightly faster, but I didn't notice any difference with the fonts.

'slightly' is a serious understatement

If we are talking about opening big files - Sublime times faster than VSC and miles faster than Code, which still fails at files bigger then 10mb often.

VSC recently put in a large file feature. Which disables many of the standard text editing features to open up these files faster.

I'm not sure if this addresses files bigger than 10mb though.

I'm using VCS for some time now (and was at the time of the previous comment), but it's still slow when compared. They did a great job and left Atom (I ment Atom when I said Code, lol) behind, but there is still a huge room for improvement.

Yeah, it does and pretty well in latest releases.[0]

[0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/6474#issuecomment...

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