Atom was unbelievably slow. How will the performance be improved? Visual Studio Code somehow managed to surpass the awful Electron performance just enough to make it usable, and it's pretty unbelievable this project will come close to that.

For those who want fast and lightweight without falling all the way back to emacs/vim, I’m really digging Lite-XL.

Lua for customization, thin accelerated rendering layer in SDL2+freetype, zero nonsense. Binary packages are like 2MB. The code itself is clean and readable.

The plugin collection is still young and won’t have everything you’d find in the Electron-family of editors, but that’s also a plus when it comes to it staying lightweight and streamlined like some might want in these tools.