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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by rjbwork »

jimmyvalmer wrote: post #14

I 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.

I use FF, DDG, and Sublime. I do still use gmail and i have an android phone I've had for a couple of years (some moto something or another). I'm definitely considering how to extricate myself from google's grasp, but gmail is just massively technically superior to other solutions I've looked at. And Apple just rubs me the wrong way. I've never been a fan of their products, especially the way they price gouge.

And so it is that I have partially reduced my dependence on google... I hope to finish some day.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by abricot »

d-d wrote: post #11

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!

Vim key combinations are awful for many non-US keyboard layouts. Many combinations can't even be done (you can't hold down shift twice for examble)

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by villgax »

d-d wrote: post #11

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!

GUI & extensions for the most part. VSCode is way faster than Atom & licensing allows it to be used in commercial settings unlike Sublime.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by denkmoon »

It turned out the Atom is garbage, basically. It was supposed to be a better version of Sublime Text, and open source, but never got close to feature or performance parity.

I stopped using it because it is a pain. I watched the multi-line regex issue in Atom for years, and no progress was made.

VS Code didn't have multi-line regex when it launched. It does now though.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by jonny383 »

troycarlson wrote: post #20
jonny383 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've used YouCompleteMe extensively for a couple of years. The only language I thought it was nearly as good as these "full" web editors was TypeScript.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

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Post by geoah »

null4bl3 wrote: post #24

For all the people going with "just use vscode" at least use VSCodium as it is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode https://vscodium.com/

I don’t really mind the telemetry vscode sends. There are only so many ways the developers of an application can get feedback on usage and performance patterns.

Metrics are important in any service or product you build as it allows you to better understand your user and adjust your product or roadmap.

I also remember the option to disable the telemetry has been added but it still reported the fact that you disabled it which I think they’d fix but cant find the github issue :/

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