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I love atom, I use it daily and it is my editor of choice for web stuff.

But think of how many software abstractions/levels each line of atom code has to go through. I mean, each keypress probably produces in the order of 100 million CPU instructions in the metal (number pulled out of my behind but you get the idea) just to display a single character. Is this what progress looks like?

I guess there's a balance between developer comfort and software efficiency.



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