I'm not sure Atom's slowness can be attributed to being built on web technologies. Visual Studio Code is also built on Electron and is not only faster than Atom for many tasks, but also faster than Sublime. To be more specific, on my windows machine at work I can open large files (10+ MB XML) much quicker in Code than Sublime. Global text substitution in these large files are also noticeably faster in VS Code.
> Visual Studio Code is also built on Electron and is not only faster than Atom for many tasks, but also faster than Sublime.
Can you please back this up with any benchmarks?
2 months ago when I tried VSC, though the UI and some features (git workflow) were really nice, performance was again a disappointment compared to Sublime. Having played with Electron myself it's obvious why performance is an issue with both Atom and VSC.
Agreed it's slower than Sublime, but seems to have more in the box too... There are also some quirks that I haven't liked, but it's become my day to day editor over sublime at this point... I like the UI a lot.
