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Re: Atom 1.14

#2
There isn't anything I miss from Sublime Text.

> A fundamental component of the text editor called the display layer has been redesigned to rely on a new data structure that is implemented in C++.

Congrats on the release.

Re: Atom 1.14

#3
I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

Re: Atom 1.14

#4

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-...

Source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

Re: Atom 1.14

#5

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-... Source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

Wow. Significantly slower than the IDEs I used to think were bloated JVM beasts.

Re: Atom 1.14

#6

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-... Source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

Now I want to see the results from neovim, or anything with a client/server architecture. I'm surprised emacs is so slow (compared to vim) and I wonder if that explains it.

Re: Atom 1.14

#7

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

It's not psychological: https://pavelfatin.com/images/typing/editor-latency-windows-... Source: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

This is one of the reasons preventing me to switch from Sublime.

The other reason is slowness to open a single file from the CLI, it seems Atom doesnt reuse the already open shell like sublime does, there was a tracked issue for that one.

Re: Atom 1.14

#8

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

It's super-slow, and freezes many times more than Sublime.

I like that it's more foolproof, though. Granted it's a product built for developers, it's nice to have a GUI for installing themes and plugins, and for configuring it. This aspect is what keeps me from switching to Sublime.

Re: Atom 1.14

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post #8

I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

It's super-slow, and freezes many times more than Sublime. I like that it's more foolproof, though. Granted it's a product built for developers, it's nice to have a GUI for installing themes and plugins, and for configuring it. This aspect is what keeps me from switching to Sublime.

Im not sure what you mean, Sublime has a GUI for installing themes and plugins. And is a config file really that difficult?

Re: Atom 1.14

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I really like the concept of Atom, but it always feels slow compared to VI. I think it's psychological though, because I can't point to any part of it and say "This is slow".

I have noticed at least 2 situations:

1. Opening large text files 2. Some frequent changes in one of the files in the tree being made by a different process

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