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by parmesan 3287 days ago
I switched back to Sublime after a while, Atom was so slow to start, at least when I first tried it out in ~2014 (2015?). Sublime loads in like 100ms on all my machines.

I'm also the vim kind tho, but when I browse large datasets and dumps I use Sublime.

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I could never really enjoy vim in a graphical context - but whenever I have to edit inside a terminal I'm super productive with it. I also stay mostly on Sublime, and never liked vim emulation - my brain doesn't engage in vi mode there.
Out of interest, what is your issue with graphical vim? I quite like some of the neovim gui's since they have faster screen draw times and still allow access to terminals/repls/test results/whatever via term buffers.

Although I usually still use the terminal version because it removes the binary dependency when cloning dot files on a new pc and there aren't any major differences.

The load time was also one of my 2 reasons to jump back to sublime. The other reason was it struggled opening Linux mounted ssh files. If those things can be dealt with I would love atom and modifying with JavaScript and CSS.
I'm very much a Sublime guy but I decided to try VSCode a couple weeks ago, and haven't gone back yet, so there's that (and this is a big deal as I'm traditionally anti-Microsoft)