Re:Sunsetting Atom
by ksec on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @07:26PM
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>Mission-critical tools should be hyper-responsive.
>When you move the cursor or type a character, you should see pixels on the next refresh of your display—every time. Even sub-perceptual pauses add up over the course of a day to create unnecessary stress.
I remember there were lots of research for this in Next-Generation Atom during the Atom era, before VSCode came along. Having a UI and text responsiveness within 16ms on a 60Hz Monitor is a tall order which I believe even Sublime is incapable of.
Considering 95% if not 99% of developers on HN thinks VSCode is very fast or fast enough, I am not sure this point is worth pursuing. Personally I really want to see it happen. As I hate latency.
>When you move the cursor or type a character, you should see pixels on the next refresh of your display—every time. Even sub-perceptual pauses add up over the course of a day to create unnecessary stress.
I remember there were lots of research for this in Next-Generation Atom during the Atom era, before VSCode came along. Having a UI and text responsiveness within 16ms on a 60Hz Monitor is a tall order which I believe even Sublime is incapable of.
Considering 95% if not 99% of developers on HN thinks VSCode is very fast or fast enough, I am not sure this point is worth pursuing. Personally I really want to see it happen. As I hate latency.