I love Atom. I've been using it since the day it was announced. But I don't use it for the speed. It still chokes on huge files. When I need to open something big, I reach for Sublime, and it handles it with ease.

Why do you prefer Atom over Sublime Text (except when you need to open a big file)?

I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon - no slouch by any measure, but Atom is noticibly slower to open documents and start up than Visual Studio 2015.

I'm was still on 2013 and my install is almost 2 years old. VS seems to get slower over time. And this is without powertools or resharper. Maybe it is just me but Atom sure feels quicker.

> Atom is fucking fast

Speed is relative. Faster than what editor ?

Visual Studio?

I use both. Visual Studio in a virtual machine via Parallels and Atom as a native OSX app. I find that VS is still faster.

I was referring to the person asking what Atom was fast relative to.