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Unfortunately Atom is not on par with VSCode considering responsiveness.

There are a few more issues, Emanuel Quimper summarized in: https://equimper.github.io/2017/02/25/why-i-moved-away-from-... explaining why he moved from Atom to VSCode in detail.

A month ago there was an interesting submission in favor of Sublime Text 3. Mainly because of its incredible responsiveness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928752 by Tristan Hume, comparing Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text. I highly recommend it.

My workflow now looks like this: VSCode+Plugins replaces my zsh+tmux+vim toolchain when running on AC. On battery zsh+tmux+vim provide VSCode+Plugins functionality with less beautiful gfx but unmatchable battery lifetime.

The zsh+tmux+vim toolchain is heavily customized, though: https://github.com/rscircus/dotfiles