> I am doing mostly Ruby and code in Atom, or Sublime before that. I don't have noticeable starting times for my editor.
That's interesting, because there have been articles that indicate that Atom has not only comparatively worse startup times (which may or may not matter to people), but also really bad typing latency: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
> Ruby is not native, but we'll portable. My point is this 'boring' work style is here, people just choose to not use it.
This is a good point, though! As far as I know, plenty of people still use Ruby (typically on Rails), or also other "batteries included" solutions like Python and Django pretty successfully.
Admittedly, that doesn't matter for all projects, but why couldn't we have the ease of use of Python with the performance of Rust and the developer experience of Rails/Django?
Long ago I started coding in gedit. Since then the language got only faster, I need less code because more major libs do more of my work.
Also my computer is like 8 years old, my laptop until recently was over 10 years old and my current one about 3 or 4 (T420 and T480s)
Ruby is not native, but we'll portable. My point is this 'boring' work style is here, people just choose to not use it.