Atom 1.29

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Post by one-more-minute » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:18 AM UTC

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by statictype » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:44 AM UTC

I haven't used Atom for at least an year and a half now - After trying out Visual Studio Code I haven't looked back. Has the performance improved? Is it at the level of VS Code?

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:50 AM UTC

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Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by kapuru » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:50 AM UTC

statictype wrote: post #2

I haven't used Atom for at least an year and a half now - After trying out Visual Studio Code I haven't looked back. Has the performance improved? Is it at the level of VS Code?

Sadly, no. I tried it out again a couple of days ago and the performance is still terrible. I'm in the same boat as you and switched to VS Code.

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by akuji1993 » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:53 AM UTC

statictype wrote: post #2

I haven't used Atom for at least an year and a half now - After trying out Visual Studio Code I haven't looked back. Has the performance improved? Is it at the level of VS Code?

We've also been in the same boat as you guys. Starting to just look into VSCode as an alternative, then immediately switching to it after realising the performance difference is like night and day.

Since Atom doesn't provide anything that we can't install in VSCode as a plugin, there really is no reason to use Atom right now. The only problem I had with VSCode was the default interface, that I modified with plugins until it pretty much looks like Atom, but runs way faster.

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by jy3 » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:56 AM UTC

statictype wrote: post #2

I haven't used Atom for at least an year and a half now - After trying out Visual Studio Code I haven't looked back. Has the performance improved? Is it at the level of VS Code?

I have the same question. I've never bothered looking back extensively at Atom since using VS Code.

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by saagarjha » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:58 AM UTC

I see a GIF of someone going deleting a couple lines of code, with a meter showing that the application is maintaining 60 FPS. Was this not something Atom could do before? It seems to me that the bare minimum should be maintaining 60 FPS while performing basic editing tasks…is there some nuance here I'm missing?

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by galfarragem » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 8:00 AM UTC

kapuru wrote: post #4

statictype wrote: post #2

I haven't used Atom for at least an year and a half now - After trying out Visual Studio Code I haven't looked back. Has the performance improved? Is it at the level of VS Code?

Sadly, no. I tried it out again a couple of days ago and the performance is still terrible. I'm in the same boat as you and switched to VS Code.

I hope xray[1] catches up. I prefer atom's UX-UI to any other editor but I agree that performance is still an issue. MS taking over Github doesn't seem to bring to a bright future. I really hope I'm wrong.

[1] https://github.com/atom/xray

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by DC-3 » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 8:00 AM UTC

Honest question: can someone explain why everyone loves emoji these days, especially with regards to 'modern' programming communities such as those around JS and Rust? Is it just a celebration of the fact that we have Unicode support everywhere now?

Re: Atom 1.29

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Post by kamilafsar » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 8:03 AM UTC

statictype wrote: post #2

I haven't used Atom for at least an year and a half now - After trying out Visual Studio Code I haven't looked back. Has the performance improved? Is it at the level of VS Code?

I've a similar story and several teams at our company have switched to VS Code independently. There are some Atom "believers" though.

I hope github is going to continue working on Atom independently from MSFT. Competition is a good thing. But since both products target the same audience, from Microsoft's perspective I'd understand if they'd bring those brilliant minds together in one team.