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Re:The State of Atom's Performance by cbm-vic-20 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:26AM (#16123627)
> If this was 20 years ago, atom would be built with java using swing. It would be just as slow and just as un-native.

They did, and the result wasn't that bad: http://www.jedit.org/

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Re:The State of Atom's Performance by Khaine on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:13PM (#16127916)
I meant in terms of performance and nativeness. I was thinking of like Netbeans and Eclipse, which were both great IDEs yet sucked with performance (i.e. start up time, memory consumption) and fitting in with system idioms.
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