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aikah on Jan 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaSc...

Atom is written in js + chrome "engine" for the ui.

Javascript is fast enough,the problem is that Atom is basically using browser rendering for the ui,which isn't as fast as using c++ widgets.

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