And they're all mediocre when compared to Vim/Emacs (and these are both inferior to Spacemacs which actually combines these two.)
Why isn't everyone using Spacemacs then?
Visual Studio is much, much slower than all of them yet its still an incredibly popular IDE for some reason. It has endless flaws, one of them being its still 32-bit and often crashes on larger projects. (The last game I ported to the PSVita would hang VS for minutes sometimes, often ending with out-of-memory errors, we'd reboot VS between every profiling session.)
For a good chunk of users, features and ease of use are more important than performance (especially when most of the time it really, really doesn't matter for an editor.)
People use Visual Studio instead of Vim or GNU Emacs because there's much more marketing and advertising being done for Visual Studio.
And yet they're still popular, so it can't be that significant of an issue.
> Significant enough that it comes up anytime there is a discussion on HN.
Because people don't know any better, shun anything that isn't their pet technology and generally sit on the wrong end of the Dunning-kruger effect.
Re:Electron considered harmful
by santaclaus on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:34PM
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Significant enough that it comes up anytime there is a discussion on HN.
Sublime text still smokes Atom and VSCode in the performance arena.