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Re:What you should know before starting node-webkit by Igglyboo on Friday August 01, 2014 @10:40AM (#8120047)
Light Table and Atom both run on node and they're pretty slow/jerky for me. Slow enough where I'd rather use IntelliJ for general purpose editing, intellij has a decent startup time compared to those two but it's way faster after that. Plus I always have it open when I'm working anyway so another tab doesn't really make a difference.
Re:What you should know before starting node-webkit by mkohlmyr on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:18PM (#8121040)
I run LightTable and PyCharm both side by side throughout the day as of a almost a year ago and I definitely feel the opposite. LightTable is much more responsive for me.

Although switching to an SSD made PyCharm a lot faster.

Re:What you should know before starting node-webkit by Igglyboo on Saturday August 02, 2014 @12:31AM (#8124008)
That may be the case honestly, I tried LightTable for a few weeks about a year ago and it was somewhat slow, it may well have gotten better.

I tried atom a week ago and it was extremely slow, much slower than LightTable. Almost 30s startup times and it was extremely slow at opening large files and even slower when trying to scroll through them.