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Comment by mikecmpbll | Hacker News Reader

Atom runs like a dog. If ever there was an argument for native apps, Atom makes it. The one thing you want, nay .. expect, from a simple text editor is that it doesn't LAG.

The git source tree highlighting and the image previews are the only two things I liked about it.

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Its quite embarrassing how badly Atom performs, how many subprocesses it opens and how much memory it will happily leak during the X hours its in use. I really wouldn't consider using anything NW/node-webkit or the like for all but the most trivial of applications.

There are definitely ways to incorporate Javascript into "native" programming. In Yosemite you can write Javascript that directly loads and calls native frameworks (like you can with Python/ Ruby). If you wanted you could write an entire application in Javascript, but taking shortcuts and trying to use HTML and the DOM for your interface only leads to these sorts of severe issues when doing anything nontrivial.

Agreed atom looks good I especially like the fact that it is MIT licensed but the fact that it is non native makes me very reluctant to use it.

I always thought browsers and development for the web is more complicated then it should be so bringing that mess over to the desktop is just a bad idea.

I really wish Sublime would be Open Sourced already the developer should have gotten its moneys worth by now and is clearly not investing much time into it so let the community take over.

This coming from someone who actually payed for Sublime since i considered i got enough value from it.

Sublime Text 3 has image previews too, you can open the image and it'll display in the middle of the view with transparency.

It's a self-contained website. Browsers these days are so bloated that I would be surprised if it didn't lag.

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