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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by ori_b on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:52AM (#11309996)
> None of the slowness on my end approaches any of the horror stores in these threads, but for me, opening the program from a cold boot takes long enough for the wait to irritate me, the first time I save any file after opening the program takes a second or two, and opening a new window takes a second or two.

How this isn't considered a horror story is beyond me. I'd consider that sort of latency over a the network to be awful, let alone for a local editor.

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by AlexMax on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:54PM (#11313061)
> How this isn't considered a horror story is beyond me.

Because I generally open Atom once every morning on login, at the same time that there's so much disk thrashing that pretty much everything else is loading slowly too, and leave it open the entire day. Not a huge deal.

Granted, I also don't use Atom for non-programming tasks. If I need to edit a configuration file, or browse a huge XML dump or log file, I use Vim.

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