Again this doesn’t prove that Atom necessarily performs better but it is an indication that the performance is at least similar.
What is interesting is that while running Atom the PCU pops up to 25% from time to time whereas VS Code pops the PCU slightly over 25% from point to point. That doesn’t mean much since that varies regularly.
If you look closely at these two pictures, Atom, with telemetry enabled, has the CPU running at about 2.29GHz and Code, out of the box with telemetry enabled, has the CPU running at 2.32GHz. You’ll notice that they are very similar with atom using a little LESS in resources. In the two photos below I’ve compared VS Code and Atom running idle on my Chromebook. While that may have been the case a few years ago but lately I’ve found Atom’s performance is BETTER than VS Code. There is a misnomer that Atom’s performance is poor when compared with VS Code. That just might be one reason why others are using Atom. You might wonder why anyone would use Atom when there is VS Code with all it’s features and extensions. Why Would Someone Choose Atom over VS Code?
There is plenty of life left in the Atom text editor. As of the time writing this, March 29th, 2022, atom was updated to version 1.60 only three weeks ago. I’m writing this blog on atom, using the most recent release, version 1.60. The answer is a solid “No, atom is not dead, atom is not discontinued.”. Since VS Code has taken over the developer’s world (see 2021 StackOverflow Survey) and Github was acquired by 2018 many have wondered, “is Atom dead?”
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