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Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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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.

Why use one of those half baked solutions when vim already exists?

Not everyone is productive using vim.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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As a long time (happy) user of the Git-Plus add on for Atom, I am not sure how I feel about this. Mainly because I use BitBucket for 95% of my projects. I only use GitHub very rarely for public projects that I blog about.

I hope that this won't break existing Git plugins, and won't limit Git functionality for non-Github based repos.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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The game has changed over time. They originally intended to charge for Atom. Then it became arguably the best free option, until VS Code came along.

I think a lot of us have moved from Atom/Sublime over to VS Code these days. Seems like lots more momentum and gobs of useful plugins that let me do my work.

I guess this is the IDE crowd? Us vim guys are still raising eyebrows when people say "best free option" :)

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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Because Atom was created by Github I persume.

So they should ship it as a promotional tool?

You can make the argument that they want to encourage you to submit patches to the project which is on github.

It's kinda the same deal with GNU Emacs which bundles a whole bunch of stuff that is directly related to the GNU project.

Really at the end of the day it's a fork away to shipping with SVN,CVS,mercurial,gitlab or whatever.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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I think a lot of us have moved from Atom/Sublime over to VS Code these days. Seems like lots more momentum and gobs of useful plugins that let me do my work.

I guess this is the IDE crowd? Us vim guys are still raising eyebrows when people say "best free option" :)

More so the "I want debugging and intellisense without the slowness of an IDE" crowd. :)

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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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 find bundling Git support with Atom is a requirement, VSCode does it.

Git support is different than a Github bundle. Github is different than Git.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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post #42

I can't get into Atom, the load time vs something like sublime is just too slow. Am I doing something wrong in the settings?

Since it's Electron I'll give it some slack, but I've switched to VS Code and performance is just so much better than Atom.

Atom with a few extensions installed takes it to a drag. I went through timecop a hundred times to speed it up and finally gave up.

Re: Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

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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.

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.

Installing the bundle as a plugin would change none of that. Editors are half-backed because the proof of concept is easy and the fully realized app is hard. Atom has some good things going for it (minus performance) and this Github bundle is probably awesome. But it's not good product management to pick favorites like they did.
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