[acdha]

> Every time I type `git commit`

This is true with something like Vi but with a separate GUI app, wouldn't the most common case be setting EDITOR={atom,code,etc.} and it simply opening a new window in the already-running app?

(Or, for that matter, don't most people using something IDE-like use the built-in UI to make a commit?)

[Zarel]

Opening a new window in the already-running app is also slow; they cover a strategy for increasing that performance in the linked blog post.

[acdha]

No doubt but e.g. VSCode’s sub-second performance shows that’s not a huge stretch while sticking with Electron and it has a subset of the challenges for startup performance