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I know many people reason like this, but I simply can't understand it. I can't claim to work on huge projects, but even when working on quite big ones the only "slowness" i notice is the launch time.

Surely launch time is basically insignificant for a text editor which you might only launch a few times in a day?

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I'm sure it depends on the computer.

Back when I had a mid-2010 mac mini, there was a noticeable lag between resizing an Atom window and the contents redrawing - when sublime and gedit were fine with the same files.

That was a comparatively slow computer; someone with a higher performance computer probably wouldn't think the performance was all that poor. I can only assume the Atom developers find the performance tolerable.

Still, it reminded me of the old joke [1] that the speed of software halves every 18 months.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

It is significant when I want to lookup a single file. So one good thing about ST is that it can serve both as IDE and as a quick and simple editor.

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