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by coldtea 3992 days ago
>I'm confident that, as the performance issues that some people hit are ironed out, this flexibility will make Atom hugely popular.

It's a DOM based editor -- and they already did 2 rounds of optimizing the rendering. The performance issues wont be ironed out in the foreseeable future.
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mchahn 3989 days ago
> It's a DOM based editor

According to google, javascript will soon be able to go around the DOM for situations like this. An example was shown at codeconf recently.

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13years 3992 days ago
I think MS Visual Studio Code has set the bar pretty high for what's possible. The DOM may be an inhibitor, but Code has shown you can still get very good performance.
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