Pulsar: A Community Effort to Revive the Atom Text Editor

Post by satvikpendem » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 5:04 PM UTC

MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #14

lalaland1125 wrote: post #2

What does Atom offer over alternatives, in particular Visual Studio Code?

I really miss Atom. I'll enumerate some items here, since you asked, but all of them really just boil down to personal preference: * Atom was hackable from the ground-up. I use a VS Code extension called Customize UI that allows me to write custom CSS, but Atom supported custom CSS as a first-class feature. * Nostalgia: Atom was the first text editor I used, and so it has a certain friendliness than other editors can…

Post by smoldesu » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 5:17 PM UTC

rstupek wrote: post #55

smoldesu wrote: post #52

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Yep. They also charge $100 for their full license (not even perpetual btw) which is down-right insulting. I wouldn't even download their demo on my Mac.

How is it insulting of them to want to charge for their software?

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

CharlesW wrote: post #56

stephc_int13 wrote: post #51

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Because they cornered themselves into a niche by using an Apple-only stack. Sublime Text is available on all three desktop OSes, built with C++/OpenGL for the performance intensive parts, and it works beautifully.

> Because they cornered themselves into a niche by using an Apple-only stack. HN: We demand native IDEs. Panic: Here's a native IDE that uses platform APIs for the most native look and feel possible. HN: That's too native, idiots.

Post by stephc_int13 » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 5:25 PM UTC

j16sdiz wrote: post #62

stephc_int13 wrote: post #54

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This is a problem directly related to the quality/ease of use of frameworks. In practice, all the facilities provided by Electron could be provided by a mix of standard libraries and system calls. Electron solves a bunch of tedious problems in a nice cross-platform package. The performance cost is OK for most people, especially with high quality projects such as VSCode. Unfortunately, I don't see any big player inves…

Qt was the de facto standard before electron

Post by d_tr » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

packetlost wrote: post #58

adjusted wrote: post #36

There is a new editor called zed from atom developers featuring native performance and CRDT collaboration.

It's MacOS only, sadly