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Discussion on: Why I switched from Atom to Visual Studio Code

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Billie Hilton

Can someone explain why VSCode is faster? It's made with Electron, same as Atom. Atom's sluggishness (which is largely the weight of my plugins I think) is my only reason I consider switching.

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Ben Halpern

VSCode is not that much faster than Atom. It definitely handles certain cases like big files better, but I can't say why. Sublime destroys them both in pretty much every benchmark.