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One could use c++ instead of Python/JS/Go, I would however recommend still using the JSONRpc bridge to communicate. I would not recommend using c/c++ at all, as Atom.io has proven more modern garbage collected languages have become so incredibly fast that c/c++ are primarily distractions unless you are a master of the incredibly huge ecosystem and can sling code together fast without having leaks, pointer issues, and a host of other security issues.

At a minimum, I would recommend using Go or NodeJS with a C binding for any extremely low level operations you would like to achieve, that would make everything much more suitable, you would also benefit of the ecosystem of modules.



Agreed, though I'm sure Atom doesn't steal more users from Sublime Text (C++ & Python for the plugins) due to its so-so performance.




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