| I'll provide a contrasting opinion to the comments saying startup time isn't important to them. I tend to work chaotically. I dive into a project and tackle whatever the problem of the day is. The result is a sprawling mess of reference code pulled up in different editor windows, documentation and google results spewing out over 4 browser windows and 30 tabs, and just as many terminals managing VCS, compilation, tests, etc. It's not that I'm a messy coder or anything; it's just that when I'm focused on a problem then my concern is about that problem, not about the growing heap of reference material. The problem is particularly pronounced when working on web applications, where I have to handle multiple code bases at once. Once I'm done, I'll become horrified by the state of my desktop and proceed to close everything. The next coding session starts fresh. So startup time is actually important to me. I have to say I'm annoyed by VSCode's startup time. It starts up to a state where I can hit the menu and start opening things very quickly, but isn't completely finished for another couple seconds. Atom's in a very similar boat. I'm glad to see progress being made here. |