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Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by chrsw » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 4:20 PM UTC

magnetowasright wrote: post #47

wk_end wrote: post #12

The question this leaves unanswered is: why not VS Code? I don't know if MS built VS Code deliberately to compete with Atom, and I don't know if they bought GH to kill Atom. But once they had Atom in their hands, it only made sense to kill off Atom - they're extremely similar. They're both: (1) free Electron-based text editors that (2) are highly extendable in JS, are (3) powerful enough to use as IDEs, but (4) more…

I used Atom until it was killed. I have tried many times over the last few years to switch to VSCode (for some of the benefits you mentioned) but there's never been a way to configure a few things that are non-negotiable for me. I have really spent way too much time trying to get it set up how I want but it's just not possible from what I can find. I also strongly dislike some of the general approaches to UI/UX and t…

I've switched to Sublime too. They have a Vim mode. It's the best editor I've used so far. Doesn't have all the features of VS Code but for pure editing it's great.

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by umvi » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 5:05 PM UTC

I_like_pigeons wrote: post #61

umvi wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then you have Linus Torvalds who uses nano

I thought he used his own fork of a micro emacs?

Ah, yes, my mistake, he was only thinking of switching to nano:

> And it's all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I will have to soon enough. I hacked up (a very limited) utf-8 support for it a few years ago, but it's really showing its age, and showing all the signs of having been written in the 80's and the version I use was a fork that hasn't been maintained since the mid 90's.

> University of Helsinki used it because it worked on DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix, which is why I got introduced to it. And now my fingers are hardcoded for it. I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. But my hacked-up piece of historical garbage works just barely well enough that I've never been really forced to teach my old fingers new tricks.

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by bitwize » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

copperx wrote: post #49

bitwize wrote: post #11

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I've known many world-class programmers who use Emacs, among them Kalman Reti and Steve Summit. Most of the diehard Vim users I encountered were kind of in the DUVASWUV camp (DHH Uses Vim And So We Use Vim), i.e., they came to it as part of the whole Rails memeplex. That said, vi(m) and Emacs used to share the throne as the canonical Unix wizard editors because they were nearly ubiquitously available, consistent in U…

Vim? I remember DHH was the premier TextMate evangelist. All his videos were TextMate only.

Being a Rubyist and using vim is definitely a thing. Looks like I was off about DHH being the origin. It certainly wasn't Matz, he uses (and contributed to) Emacs.

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by jemmyw » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 5:50 AM UTC

> It takes maybe 6–8 seconds for it to fully load from scratch, but once it is open, using it feels pretty snappy. The slowness is due to being an Electron app, which is basically a web browser.

VSCode: 3s. Firefox: 2s. Chrome: 2s. Safari: 1s.

> Also, Vim and Emacs use modes to allow users to either write the text in the file itself or to enter commands for the editor. Modes are terrible to use

Fuck you

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by notnmeyer » Sun, Feb 25, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

porphyra wrote: post #43

logicprog wrote: post #39

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Considering how confidently utterly wrong the author of this article seems to be about Vim and to an even more substantial degree Emacs, I'm not inclined to put much stock in this as an insight.

I think it was just a bad joke rather than an insight. As a neovim user myself, I personally know a couple of extremely oustanding programmers who use emacs.

yeah, i read it as a joke as well.