[BinaryIdiot]

> I'm way more worried about memory issues while running.

Same here. Start-up time is important when the average user is hitting a web app or application but for developers? We open something once and then keep it open pretty much all day.

Unless I'm an edge case I'd suspect start-up time is mostly meaningless to developers with long running developer tools.

At the same time we always have tons of tools open at once so we need as much memory as possible because once things hit the swap the performance degrades terribly.

[jnordwick]

If Atom ran like vim, I'd take 60 seconds+ of startup time. If it ran like ed, maybe even an hour.

I probably spend more time hitting backspace when typing 'atom' than they saved in startup time.