Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by antouank » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 10:24 PM UTC

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by jastanton » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:00 PM UTC

Has anyone tried Atom recently to determine if any of these performance boosts have made enough difference to consider switching back?

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by iMark » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:08 PM UTC

I second the question: Is it any good?

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by asp2insp » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:09 PM UTC

jastanton wrote: post #2

Has anyone tried Atom recently to determine if any of these performance boosts have made enough difference to consider switching back?

I've been using Atom as my daily driver for Python, Golang, Rust, and JavaScript for several months now. Startup performance is bad (have not tried with 1.1 yet) but editing/scrolling/fuzzy finding are all more than acceptable.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by thejf » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:10 PM UTC

jastanton wrote: post #2

Has anyone tried Atom recently to determine if any of these performance boosts have made enough difference to consider switching back?

I don't have any hard numbers for you, but it feels as if it's improved by a lot.

I had switched away from Atom precisely because of the speed issue, but switched back to it a number of months back and I haven't noticed any performance problems.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by seanwilson » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:11 PM UTC

I've been using Atom for about 1 year now for mostly JavaScript and Python programming. It's great! I've easy to be productive in and performance has been fine for me on a MacBook. It has an active plugin community and I've found plugins for everything I need so far.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by LegNeato » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:13 PM UTC

If you were seeing Atom Helper take 100% cpu on launch or when viewing packages (especially with Nuclide), it should be fixed. Please comment or file a task if it is not!

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by d2xdy2 » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:13 PM UTC

jastanton wrote: post #2

Has anyone tried Atom recently to determine if any of these performance boosts have made enough difference to consider switching back?

I just updated to Atom 1.1 on my early 2015 rMBP... still takes upward of 20 seconds to open up a project containing Once its started, it lags quite a bit. I really _want_ to use Atom, but the performance just kills it for me.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by usaphp » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:14 PM UTC

The biggest problem with Atom for me is Sublime Text, it just does everything that Atom does and most important is that my battery lasts about 30% more with SublimeText compared to Atom, never mind performance improvements I get with Sublime Text. I am using latest retina macbook pro 15.

Re: Atom 1.1 is out

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Post by seanwilson » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 11:16 PM UTC

d2xdy2 wrote: post #8

jastanton wrote: post #2

Has anyone tried Atom recently to determine if any of these performance boosts have made enough difference to consider switching back?

I just updated to Atom 1.1 on my early 2015 rMBP... still takes upward of 20 seconds to open up a project containing Once its started, it lags quite a bit. I really _want_ to use Atom, but the performance just kills it for me.

You should report this as a bug I think. I've used Atom on a similar machine for large projects with large commit histories and it's never takes more than a few seconds to open.