So what? There’s no reason the Atom team couldn’t optimise their critical paths while retaining extensibility and cross-platform-ness, and the proof is that Emacs has already done it.
> There’s no reason the Atom team couldn’t optimize
their critical paths while retaining extensibility and cross-platform-ness, and the proof is that Emacs has already done it.
I believe that's what the Atom team is doing. They've detailed several critical paths that can and will be rewritten in C++/Rust in the linked post.
