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by herbst 1282 days ago
I honestly don't get that use case, I don't open large files in a text editor usually. But I agree that atom sucks in that degree.

Maybe slow never was the problem is kinda what my point is. In the end it's just an editor for text.

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I like to reverse-engineer web APIs (working on the NBA's stats API right now) and sometimes I have to open/autoformat JSON files with 500k+ lines.

As a firmware engineer, it's also frequently useful to be able to do hexdumps of large binary files in VS Code.