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> If this was 20 years ago, atom would be built with java using swing. It would be just as slow and just as un-native.

They did, and the result wasn't that bad: http://www.jedit.org/

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I meant in terms of performance and nativeness. I was thinking of like Netbeans and Eclipse, which were both great IDEs yet sucked with performance (i.e. start up time, memory consumption) and fitting in with system idioms.

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0 pointscbm-vic-208y ago0 comments

> If this was 20 years ago, atom would be built with java using swing. It would be just as slow and just as un-native.

They did, and the result wasn't that bad: http://www.jedit.org/

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Khaine8y ago

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