I gave Atom an honest chance for a couple of months and went back to Sublime. Don't understand how people have the energy to put up with an editor that randomly gets sluggish when typing, hogs RAM, crashes spontaneously (requiring a restart), and chokes on large files.

I was horrified as to what Electron apps do to my laptop's batteries.

Just writing a bit of code in Atom shouldn't rinse a fairly new MacBook Pro in under three hours.

Sublime, on the other hand, lasts all day.

I don't really mind the static overhead as long as it stays fast and if it could deal with 'larger than memory' files sensibly. Alas, it does neither.

I'm very hesitant to standardize on a non-OSS editor, though, so I think Sublime is out for me.

My laptop has 16GB of RAM, I don't really give a fuck about a few hundred MB of RAM in all fairness.

1) Arguable. In any case Chrome and everything based on it (i.e. Electron) render fonts too light compared to native apps on Windows, and don't properly respect ClearType settings. I've been told the underlying issue is a design mistake in gamma handling between Chrome and Skia, but I have no idea whether that's true. The fact that more and more apps are Electron based makes this very sad :(

2) You can't set tab = 8 and indent = 2. This isn't common, but sometimes one deals with foreign sources where that's an issue.

4) Repetitive editing tasks where just doing them once is much faster than coming up with a shell/sed/awk/perl/python on-liner. I switch to vi for those right now.