[mchahn]

> I thought I'd try Nuclide, which basically made Atom unusable that last time I tested it.

I found the same. I just tried nuclide again, which I do once a month or so, and it basically rendered Atom useless.

> I have some faith that the performance will improve but there is a limit

I used to argue the same thing, because it is built on the DOM, but after talking to a few of the Atom developers and a guy from Google at a conference I have new hope. The google guy said in a talk that Google was adding an API that allows javascript to go around the DOM. You will be able to render text into an existing DIV directly without triggering the DOM. This was specifically to allow things like atom to display and scroll text fast.

So there are clever people working to fix speed problems. I personally am not seeing speed problems even with 30 or 40 plugins. I think the breaking point was 1.0.