My loading times were nowhere slow as yours, but I recently switched from Atom to VS Code and noticed a sensible improvement in both starting the REPL and using modules.
You can check this talk for a brief tutorial in setting it up:
My loading times were nowhere slow as yours, but I recently switched from Atom to VS Code and noticed a sensible improvement in both starting the REPL and using modules.
You can check this talk for a brief tutorial in setting it up: