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dotancohen on March 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gitlab 9.0

Note that Atom is written in Javascript, so the run time is extraordinarily CPU heavy. Even though many Electron (Javascript desktop framework) apps may have snappy UIs, they're typically even worse than Java for CPU (battery life, etc).

jhasse on March 23, 2017 [–]

btw: Sublime Text is written in C++, so the performance might be even better than Java.

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