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Re:The Monaco Code Editor by rkangel on Monday June 20, 2016 @05:31PM (#11941737)
I was going to say that my emacs uses an awful lot more memory than that, but actually it's got 190 files open in at least 3 languages and it's using 89.8 Mb of RAM at the moment.

Atom is at a fundamental disadvantage - it's built on a much more complicated and abstracted stack of technologies. Javascript engines do spectacular things these days but they have a harder job to do than executing compiled lisp, and that's before you look at the whole of the rest of the stack involved.

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