Michael Reed has edited thousands of Linux configuration files. And that was just the last time he installed Gentoo.
We put each of the text editors through their paces by opening up and editing source code files in the C, Dart and C# programming languages. We also opened a variety of configuration and log files of the type that you’re likely to encounter on a typical Linux system.
HOW WE TESTSD…
We put each of the text editors through their paces by opening up and editing source code files in the C, Dart and C# programming languages. We also opened a variety of configuration and log files of the type that you’re likely to encounter on a typical Linux system.
Some text editors are touted as ‘lightweight’, and if you had to outfit a constrained platform such as an older computer or a Raspberry Pi, then that might be worth taking into account. However, in this era of computers with fast, multicore processors, lots of RAM and SSD drives, we don’t consider that to be as important a factor as it once was.
The modern, heavyweight text editors in our Roundup – Atom and Visual Studio Code – loaded slightly more slowly and exhibited some lag when run on a typical desktop computer, but it wasn’t a problem in actual use. For this reason, we decided not to focus on performance as a category when testing.