In my experience, VSC's cold boot startup time is just as bad as Atom, and it's not immune to interface jank - for example, when unfolding the "tree view" on one of my projects, I can actually see the folders being painted top to bottom.
But I don't use VSC day-in-day-out (since it's missing multiple project root folder support), so perhaps I'm missing something.
In my experience, VSC's cold boot startup time is just as bad as Atom, and it's not immune to interface jank - for example, when unfolding the "tree view" on one of my projects, I can actually see the folders being painted top to bottom.
But I don't use VSC day-in-day-out (since it's missing multiple project root folder support), so perhaps I'm missing something.