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Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by 13years »

wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

It has definitely gotten better and VS Code and Brackets both give hope it can still improve. Actually Brackets all file search is faster than sublime.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by timrpeterson »

wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

Yea slowness is what led me back to Sublime. I tried for months, I really did.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by snarfy »

podgib wrote: post #9
sotojuan wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VS Code is also a Chrome window disguised as an app but runs much better, so there's definitely things the Atom/Electron team can do.

VS code runs on electron, so it's really just atom itself, not electron, that must be the bottleneck

This is a great observation and gives me hope for all the other projects built on atom.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by aesthetics1 »

>> File types can be easily associated with Atom now it registers itself so it can be associated with file types. No more need to hunt for atom.exe

This is great! I've had to associate with atom.cmd for quite a while now, which has been a bit annoying.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by draw_down »

wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

That is my problem as well. It's just like Sublime.... but slower.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by hacker_9 »

wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

I see this comment every time an Atom post gets on HN. Are you sure it's not just your computer specs? If Atom continually makes the HN front page then many people must be using it just fine and like it? Personally I'm not sure why we need another text editor of all things, but hey its made in javascript which is hip at the moment.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by gareim »

hacker_9 wrote: post #16
wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

I see this comment every time an Atom post gets on HN. Are you sure it's not just your computer specs? If Atom continually makes the HN front page then many people must be using it just fine and like it? Personally I'm not sure why we need another text editor of all things, but hey its made in javascript which is hip at the moment.

It's not his specs. Sublime is just that much faster. It also doesn't slowly creep up in RAM usage unlike Atom.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by izacus »

hacker_9 wrote: post #16
wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

I see this comment every time an Atom post gets on HN. Are you sure it's not just your computer specs? If Atom continually makes the HN front page then many people must be using it just fine and like it? Personally I'm not sure why we need another text editor of all things, but hey its made in javascript which is hip at the moment.

A quad core, 16GB RAM rMBP with SSD should really be able to run a text editor for a 500 line Python file without caret lagging behind typing :/

Sublime can do it easily, Atom still can't. Am I holding it wrong?

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by vbit »

melling wrote: post #8
wyager wrote: post #3

I don't really want more features for Atom. I just want it to be faster. Right now it's incredibly sluggish compared to e.g. Sublime. Is there any hope on this front, or are the performance issues intrinsic?

Sublime is written in C++ while Atom is written in JavaScript. Atom is going to be slow by design. Emacs uses 'slow" elisp to implement major functionality, but the critical functionality is written in C. Perhaps that approach could be taken with Atom?

Javascript runtimes these days are plenty fast. You can definitely have a snappy editor and in only rare cases might need C. The issue is probably reducing the browser overhead, i.e. rendering DOM updates and the memory weight of the entire browser stack, etc.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Post by vbit »

rodgerd wrote: post #10

I have been ignoring the Atom hype because "geeze a programmers editor written as a big blob of JavaScript on my desktop that sounds like a dumb idea". Then I tried it and it's wonderful and magical.

Could you highlight some of the reasons you liked it?
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