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I just played with atom for the last 2+ hours.

It is kinda cool, but holy shit is it slow. Editing a plugin requires a reload. A reload is a good 2-4 seconds on my 4 year old mbp.

The vim-mode is very incomplete and very buggy. Granted that should get a lot better in time.

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It may have to do what ST3 did and queue loading of plugins after startup, instead of all at once before the editor is "usable". If they do that it could start up nice and fast in theory, though we obviously don't know what else it's trying to do yet.

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