<story><title>Latency matters</title><url>https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/latency-matters.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emerongi</author><text>Latency is the reason I just can not use some editors, most notably Atom. You get used to it after a while, but it&amp;#x27;s not fun.&lt;p&gt;I remember when I used IntelliJ&amp;#x27;s product line for a good while and then opened up Vim. I was dumbfounded that I somehow had not noticed that IntelliJ was slow. It&amp;#x27;s fast enough - not Atom - but Vim was amazing next to it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Latency matters</title><url>https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/latency-matters.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Alan Kay once said something like &amp;quot;There should no more be a delay between pressing a key and something happening on a computer than on a piano.&amp;quot;</text></comment>