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Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#21
post #5

Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

who cares what it smells like.. if you use github, why would you prefer github to "stay pure" as you've put it?

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand this will Github an incentive to keep on improving Atom. Maybe someone has finally figured out how to monetize an editor. I hope so, cause the current ecosystem of editors is a mess of half baked solutions.

Monetizing an editor was a solved problem 40 years ago.

but stopped working maybe 20 years ago.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#26

This looks like a fantastic development, but I worry about performance. Atom is already pretty sluggish, I would rather see performance upgrades before new features. Maybe they're not correlated.

Performance has been a key focus of the last few releases. 1.17, the stable release also being released today, has a major jump: http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#27

This looks like a fantastic development, but I worry about performance. Atom is already pretty sluggish, I would rather see performance upgrades before new features. Maybe they're not correlated.

Performance has been a key focus of the last few releases. 1.17, the stable release also being released today, has a major jump: http://blog.atom.io/2017/04/18/improving-startup-time.html

Thanks; I'll upgrade

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#28

This looks like a fantastic development, but I worry about performance. Atom is already pretty sluggish, I would rather see performance upgrades before new features. Maybe they're not correlated.

I assume this is one of the reasons they decided to add it "natively". Since people are using git/github plugins anyway. Here is the old package: https://atom.io/packages/github Here is the work they did to upgrade the performance: https://githubengineering.com/integrating-git-in-atom/

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#29
post #3
post #2

This looks like it's going to be neat! But why does it come bundled by default [1], instead of an optional package? [1] https://atom.io/packages/github

Because Atom was created by Github I persume.

So they should ship it as a promotional tool?

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

#30
post #5

Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.

I couldn't agree more. Thanks for saying so.
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