The new features and updates are great, but the one thing holding me back from using it is the fact it is extremely slow and laden with performance issues. Anyone who has ever attempted to open a file with a lot of lines of code will attest to the fact that Atom has issues.
Ironically, Microsoft's open source Visual Studio Code editor is based in part of some aspects of Atom and it has exceptional performance and is a great editor in comparison. They need to focus on fixing the slowness. VSCode proved that Electron is not the bottleneck but rather Atom's code itself is.
Ironically, Microsoft's open source Visual Studio Code editor is based in part of some aspects of Atom and it has exceptional performance and is a great editor in comparison. They need to focus on fixing the slowness. VSCode proved that Electron is not the bottleneck but rather Atom's code itself is.