Same here. Start-up time is important when the average user is hitting a web app or application but for developers? We open something once and then keep it open pretty much all day.
Unless I'm an edge case I'd suspect start-up time is mostly meaningless to developers with long running developer tools.
At the same time we always have tons of tools open at once so we need as much memory as possible because once things hit the swap the performance degrades terribly.
I probably spend more time hitting backspace when typing 'atom' than they saved in startup time.
I'll take the license.
I've been feeling this way for years, and I've mostly ascribed it to my faulty perception. I figured that if things simply aren't getting faster (i.e., they're not changing at all), I'm probably just imagining them getting slower.
But then I start wondering why aren't things getting faster...
I'd say buy some more RAM, it IS cheap and you never have too much.
Compiling a few more seconds to page in. Ssh a few more. Everything on my laptop slows to a crawl as they fight for RAM with Atom taking up the way more than it should.
I know the answer, "buy more RAM it's cheap", from the Atom people, but then my browser people tell me the same thing. So do my interface people, and my kernel people, and by the time I say "okay" to all of them, I'm out of RAM again.
Application need to learn they aren't the only thing running. For some reason, my machine seems to be getting slower and slower no matter how much I upgrade.