I am still unsure why anyone uses Atom when it consumes so many resources. The emacs instance I have had open for some time now is using 92Mb. Atom instances have been reported in the hundreds of megabytes [1]. Of course, this is because it is actually a web application running in an entire browser, renderer and helper processes included.<p>I understand the need for people to be able to &quot;easily&quot; hack on it (easily in quotes here because really that just means &quot;people who know web languages&quot;), but that goal could still be accomplished in a native application that embedded a JS runtime for plugins.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.atom.io&#x2F;t&#x2F;high-usage-cpu-and-memory&#x2F;16165&#x2F;3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.atom.io&#x2F;t&#x2F;high-usage-cpu-and-memory&#x2F;16165&#x2F;3</a>