Sergey Filimonov

@bogdancss I don't really understand why this issue has been closed too. This is a critical question for many (if not most) Mac owners using Atom today.

@darangi it's hard to fill out the issue properly cause details of it are completely unknown for now. We need a platform to discuss the Atom performance on the new...

> Just set up new MacBook Air with M1. Atom will not launch. Googling how to launch. Came across this thread. @ash37 do you have Rosetta 2 installed?

Electron has just been updated to support Apple Silicon: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-11-0

@ash37 great! So how fast is Atom with Rosetta 2 compared with the native x86 environment?

@ash37 how much RAM do you have in your new MBA M1? Could you also test if Atom becomes sluggish under some load?

@eneroth how much RAM do you have? And what kind of tasks Atom is performing at these moments? It would be great if you recorded this on video.

@eneroth thanks! It would be useful to compare between the current version of Atom with the current version of VSCode to know if the reason is Atom or Electron itself....

> Atom is still on electron v6. They have a ways to go if they need to upgrade to v11 [one version at a time](https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/20764#issuecomment-638148679). Does it mean that an...

Same issue with M1 — Atom hits 100% of CPU usage.