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Re:Ask HN: What's up with Sublime Text? by jere on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @09:44AM (#8329877)
>After a month, it pretty much boils down to one difference in my experience: Speed. Atom is significantly slower in everything, opening files, projects, to using plugins.

So then my question is why is Atom so much slower?

Re:Ask HN: What's up with Sublime Text? by johncoltrane on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @03:28PM (#8331911)
nodejs backend, client/server architecture, runs in a webkit instance. Pretty much what you'd expect from web guys writing a desktop application.