To be fair, only very large text files trouble Atom. And when does any dev ever actually open massive text files in text editors. I&#x27;m a Vim guy and have only briefly tried Atom, but I still wouldn&#x27;t dream of opening a huge text file in Vim, even though it would cope a lot better than Atom. If it&#x27;s a log file or something I&#x27;m going to be using tail&#x2F;grep etc. to deal with it.<p>Yeah exactly emacs is hackable if you want to write lisp, which has a very small audience. So sure there is absolutely a desire for an editor written in a &#x27;nice&#x27;, hackable language like Python or JS (forgive me JS haters) to prosper.