Atom 1.14 • Hacker News Board

Re: Atom 1.14

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Post by chessweb01 » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

thescribe wrote: post #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".

Atom is my editor of choice due to the Platform.IO extension for IOT development. On my machine, just starting Atom 1.13 involved two interruptions by message boxes saying "Editor is not responding" which had to be closed manually in order to continue with the start-up process. Those annoying boxes have vanished completely with 1.14., so there is some significant performance improvement.

Re: Atom 1.14

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Post by iLemming » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 10:41 PM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #12

Yes, most of the criticisms of Atom are fair on speed, but: out of the box markdown support is second to none and if you do Clojure, and like GUIs, proto-repl is amazing.

If you do Clojure - Emacs/Spacemacs with CIDER - beyond comparison

Re: Atom 1.14

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Post by nkkollaw » Thu, Feb 09, 2017, 10:59 PM UTC

MaxLeiter wrote: post #9

nkkollaw wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I wouldn't say it's difficult, just cumbersome and with no advantage over a GUI.

Re: Atom 1.14

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Post by jgalt212 » Fri, Feb 10, 2017, 3:16 AM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #22

jgalt212 wrote: post #12

Yes, most of the criticisms of Atom are fair on speed, but: out of the box markdown support is second to none and if you do Clojure, and like GUIs, proto-repl is amazing.

If you do Clojure - Emacs/Spacemacs with CIDER - beyond comparison

spacemacs sounds interesting. first item I ever heard of it. will give a look b/c emacs scares me.