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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

#41

Post by blablabla123 » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

kaushikt wrote: post #40

I never moved to Atom. Never understood the big hype about it. For people who moved, why did you?

It's free, Cross-Platform and a "normal" editor, so at work it enables to work with others on the same computer. When I tried VSCode, I found the UX a bit unusual and I think I run into bugs IIRC, but I might give it a try again.

(I think I would pay for Sublime if they'd open-source it with some premium package or so because it's much faster.)

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

#42

Post by aaomidi » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

kyledrake wrote: post #34

I still use Atom and it works great for me. Just because someone isn't blasting code in it constantly doesn't mean it's dead (infact I usually prefer it to constant, chaotically high levels of change). How often does rsync change and does that prevent anyone from using it? That said if I was going to switch to something I would probably go back to sublime (which I have a license for). Microsoft is dumping a lot of mo…

I mean...vscode is MIT licensed.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by kirb » Fri, Oct 04, 2019, 12:57 AM UTC

rumblefrog wrote: post #33

Atom was built to showcase electron, with no other goals in mind at the time.

If I recall correctly Atom was originally developed on top of node-webkit before they decided to fork and create Atom Shell based on Chromium. The catalyst that pushed Atom Shell to become the Electron project we know and love was Slack investing in getting it up to snuff to replace their existing desktop apps at the time.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

#44

Post by frollo » Fri, Oct 04, 2019, 11:47 AM UTC

kaushikt wrote: post #40

I never moved to Atom. Never understood the big hype about it. For people who moved, why did you?

I find it more comfortable than the alternatives. I only use command line tools, so what I need in an editor is just a way to type things into files, and Atom is just comfortable when doing that.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

#45

Post by recov » Fri, Oct 04, 2019, 12:02 PM UTC

aaomidi wrote: post #42

kyledrake wrote: post #34

I still use Atom and it works great for me. Just because someone isn't blasting code in it constantly doesn't mean it's dead (infact I usually prefer it to constant, chaotically high levels of change). How often does rsync change and does that prevent anyone from using it? That said if I was going to switch to something I would probably go back to sublime (which I have a license for). Microsoft is dumping a lot of mo…

I mean...vscode is MIT licensed.

Only if you grab it from github - https://code.visualstudio.com/License/

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

#46

Post by s17n » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 4:16 AM UTC

d-d wrote: post #11

I honestly don't get why people use Atom or even VS code for that matter. Vim and emacs come shipped with many systems, have good plugins, and are waaaay faster; not to mention no telemetry!

As a current emacs, former vim user, vscode is better. I use emacs as a hobby because I'm interested in it, not because it's more productive, because it's not.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

#47

Post by qwerty456127 » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 1:31 AM UTC

geoah wrote: post #30

null4bl3 wrote: post #24

For all the people going with "just use vscode" at least use VSCodium as it is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode https://vscodium.com/

I don’t really mind the telemetry vscode sends. There are only so many ways the developers of an application can get feedback on usage and performance patterns. Metrics are important in any service or product you build as it allows you to better understand your user and adjust your product or roadmap. I also remember the option to disable the telemetry has been added but it still reported the fact that you disabled i…

Telemetry makes sense but I mind individual apps making any network connections and sending/receiving whatever is not essential to solving the actual task I use them for, let alone send data about me in a black-box manner. There should be a centralized system service apps would pass telemetry to for it to send it further and all the data should be in human-readable format.