[muktabh]

I have tried to use Atom many times. It is built in open - source spirit and has a very friendly community. So I download every release which is even slightly talked about and try it (including 1.0) , and every time I end up wishing it was faster like Sublime and switch back. I code in Python/Go, both of which have very exhaustive plugins in Atom, but it turns out autocompletes are noticably slow. I do not mind if I type a few characters and they appear a bit later on screen, but like 5 seconds after pressing enter <I use enter for autocomplete> is kind of unfair, esp when you see things happening almost spontaneously in Sublime.

However, I would like to say that it is getting better (version 1.0 is way better than the first one I tried) and has the potential to become the next emacs. But its not right now there. I will not wait till then to switch, but unless Atom gets faster, I am not taking a plunge. I think Sublime is the undisputed leader for me till this happens.

[snarfy]

Have you tried Adobe's Brackets editor? It's similar to Atom (uses chrome + node) but much better performance, IMO.

I refuse to use any editor with a noticeable delay when I type. My 7mhz Amiga 500 did not have a delay when typing, but some how Atom manages to cause lag on my 8 core 3ghz machine.

[13years]

I'm currently using Brackets mostly because it performs much better than Atom. Interestingly, in some cases according to this, it even beats Sublime.

Comparison of Atom, Brackets, Sublime, VS Code https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/11093