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		herbst on Dec 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atom was archived today I honestly don't get that use case, I don't open large files in a text editor usually. But I agree that atom sucks in that degree. Maybe slow never was the problem is kinda what my point is. In the end it's just an editor for text.

ryukoposting on Dec 24, 2022 [–]

I like to reverse-engineer web APIs (working on the NBA's stats API right now) and sometimes I have to open/autoformat JSON files with 500k+ lines.

As a firmware engineer, it's also frequently useful to be able to do hexdumps of large binary files in VS Code.

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