Code Editor Review - Which One is the Best for Opening Large Files?

Опубликовано: 13 Май 2026
на канале: Get Swifty
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Let's find the best text editor for opening large multi-gigabyte files by testing a few of the most popular text editors on macOS!

These tests were done on a 2018 mac mini i7, 32GB RAM.

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It's been a few weeks since I've been able to get a video out due to work and some recording issues. This is about the 4th attempt on this video, and even though it's not up to the quality I was after, I HAD to get it out.

I think for future content I'll record myself and screen separately rather than trying to do it all with OBS.

I know I missed out on Visual Studio. I did test it, but it performed about as well as Atom.

I also wrote a quick article on this test with a table of all results that you can find here:
https://getswifty.dev/what-is-the-bes...

0:00 Intro
0:36 File Creation Script
1:04 Atom
1:50 BBEdit
2:42 Sublime Text
3:06 Nova
3:32 MacVim
4:03 Xcode
5:04 TextEdit
5:50 Talk
6:40 Secret Weapon
7:17 Outro

#codeeditor #texteditor #performance

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