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Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by vikrantvm » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 5:55 AM UTC

gansai wrote: post #67

vikrantvm wrote: post #65

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Absoltely agree. Love the UI, add-ons(love the terminal add on). I agree go-to decalaration needs to be fixed. There are a couple of packages that try to do it, but none of them do a good job. Atom needs to fix this on priority, it's a basic feature that must work out of the box. I have got this working by manually generating ctags(installed with brew) and then using the same go to declaration option. Works like a ch…

which terminal addon do you use? As I am extremely interested to use terminal within Atom.The other day, I was using terminal-plus and it seems to have some issues.

Terminal plus is pretty sweet, works well for me!

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by xiaoma » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 7:40 AM UTC

shocks wrote: post #34

boromi wrote: post #25

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Wholeheartedly agree. I just tested this new version out. I really keep trying to use Atom, but it's just unacceptable currently when compared to Sublime. Very slow startups and laggy. This new version takes 5-10 seconds before I can start coding, that's far too slow. With every update I keep hoping things are faster, but only marginally so. VS code loads in less than 3 seconds and is a lot more snappy. I don't under…

Why is waiting 5-10 seconds for your editor to open such a problem?

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by JorgeGT » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 8:09 AM UTC

tomatsu wrote: post #6

Each time there's an Atom release announcement, I check if they've finally fixed AltGr. They didn't. Most non-US keyboard layouts are still broken.

This, and the inability to open large text files. You would think a priority for a text editor would be to be able to actually open text files and write correctly on them.

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by PSeitz » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 8:39 AM UTC

sotojuan wrote: post #23

ythl wrote: post #14

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Yeah my PC is not fast enough to run atom without lag, but it runs sublime perfectly. Maybe when I get the latest i7 I will try out Atom again.

Is Atom the perfect example of "it's 2016 and my computer has multiple cores but stuff is still slow!"?

Well, JavaScript is single threaded...

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by PSeitz » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 8:41 AM UTC

JorgeGT wrote: post #73

tomatsu wrote: post #6

Each time there's an Atom release announcement, I check if they've finally fixed AltGr. They didn't. Most non-US keyboard layouts are still broken.

This, and the inability to open large text files. You would think a priority for a text editor would be to be able to actually open text files and write correctly on them.

If V8 can't handle it, there is no way Atom will handle it. Some would assess this as major software design issue (yeah I mean me).

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by BilalBudhani » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 8:42 AM UTC

I've been developing ReactNative since past few months and hence, I've been using Atom as my default IDE with Nuclide. I agree that Atom is slower than Sublime but once you tweak some settings and get a sanity hold on your plugins then you will get a significant improvement in performance.

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by vortico » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 9:00 AM UTC

omginternets wrote: post #19

Does it still use A Terabyte Of Memory ?

Why, doesn't everyone in their startup's SF office have a terabyte of memory? Why would someone have a computer less than $5000?

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by PSeitz » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 9:22 AM UTC

halokonrad wrote: post #31

randomsofr wrote: post #22

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Unless they start using native code it will always be like that.

VSCode from Microsoft is also wrapped in electron and uses a fraction of what Atom is consuming. Not being native has nothing to do here.

The memory consumption is a magnitude larger in JavaScript than native.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang...

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by zamalek » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 9:28 AM UTC

PSeitz wrote: post #75

JorgeGT wrote: post #73

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This, and the inability to open large text files. You would think a priority for a text editor would be to be able to actually open text files and write correctly on them.

If V8 can't handle it, there is no way Atom will handle it. Some would assess this as major software design issue (yeah I mean me).

Why can't V8 handle it? Too many pointers on the heap?

Re: Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta

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Post by Luc » Tue, Aug 02, 2016, 9:30 AM UTC

boromi wrote: post #25

hartator wrote: post #7

I have participated a bit in the Atom.io open source repository, but now I am back to Sublime. It's so fast and reliable compared to Atom.io.

Wholeheartedly agree. I just tested this new version out. I really keep trying to use Atom, but it's just unacceptable currently when compared to Sublime. Very slow startups and laggy. This new version takes 5-10 seconds before I can start coding, that's far too slow. With every update I keep hoping things are faster, but only marginally so. VS code loads in less than 3 seconds and is a lot more snappy. I don't under…

> This new version takes 5-10 seconds before I can start coding, that's far too slow.

Last time I had to launch Atom was when 1.8 was released. In the use case where you leave the editor running this startup time isn't a problem.