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0 pointsDennisP11y ago0 comments

My first text editor was usable on a machine 300,000 times slower with a million times less RAM. It bothers me that text editor performance is ever considered challenging at all.

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nine_k11y ago

It's probably possible to build a text editor using JS that would be usable in Netscape 4 on a 8 MB machine under Windows 3.1.

What Atom's authors aim is not just being usable; the try to make it comfortable. This a rather higher bar.

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