I honestly don't get why people use Atom or even VS code for that matter. Vim and emacs come shipped with many systems, have good plugins, and are waaaay faster; not to mention no telemetry!
Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
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#12It sounds like a typical Microsoft strategy, they want to dominate markets and nowadays it’s by offering free services and products and sometimes buying up the competition.
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#13I honestly don't get why people use Atom or even VS code for that matter. Vim and emacs come shipped with many systems, have good plugins, and are waaaay faster; not to mention no telemetry!
Because they have a steep learning curve, were not designed with guis in mind and require extensive customization.
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#14I value a technically inferior alternative insofar as it provides an "out"
from a corporate entity. Sadly, using Firefox doesn't really mitigate
Google's grip on my data since I'm still searching via the big G. I don't see
the point of Atom as it's also Microsoft-bound, identical to vscode in
ethos, and as you point out, gets far fewer man-hours of development. I am an
emacs user.
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#15The thing that drives me batty with both of these Electron editors is that it is apparently not possible to pop out a child window for one file without launching another whole instance.
As somebody that grew up with Windows when MDI was all the rage, it is weird that this doesn't work.
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#16I honestly don't get why people use Atom or even VS code for that matter. Vim and emacs come shipped with many systems, have good plugins, and are waaaay faster; not to mention no telemetry!
I'm a vim user for a lot of things, but there's some things that are just not as good. For example, auto-completion is definitely better in VS Code or Atom. Although, vim is improving in this respect with things like coc.nvim, they are still a _nightmare_ to setup.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
#17I value a technically inferior alternative insofar as it provides an "out" from a corporate entity. Sadly, using Firefox doesn't really mitigate Google's grip on my data since I'm still searching via the big G. I don't see the point of Atom as it's also Microsoft-bound, identical to vscode in ethos, and as you point out, gets far fewer man-hours of development. I am an emacs user.
> Sadly, using Firefox doesn't really mitigate Google's grip on my data since I'm still searching via the big G
That's rather easy to fix.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
#18I value a technically inferior alternative insofar as it provides an "out" from a corporate entity. Sadly, using Firefox doesn't really mitigate Google's grip on my data since I'm still searching via the big G. I don't see the point of Atom as it's also Microsoft-bound, identical to vscode in ethos, and as you point out, gets far fewer man-hours of development. I am an emacs user.
https://www.startpage.com/en/pics.html
Not a perfect solution but does allow some cake and eating it too.
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#19I used to write most of my codes in Atom, but it was too slow when your project gets bigger. Then I shifted to VS Code on a colleague's suggestion.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
#20I honestly don't get why people use Atom or even VS code for that matter. Vim and emacs come shipped with many systems, have good plugins, and are waaaay faster; not to mention no telemetry!
I'm a vim user for a lot of things, but there's some things that are just not as good. For example, auto-completion is definitely better in VS Code or Atom. Although, vim is improving in this respect with things like coc.nvim, they are still a _nightmare_ to setup.
Ever tried YouCompleteMe? I love it for Ruby, Python, JavaScript.