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Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by Yetanfou »

eddieroger wrote: post #105
Yetanfou wrote: post #80

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It is rather disappointing that github heads down the Mac OS path while they base their company around a concept which is rather strange to most things Apple - openness and sharing. Writing for Mac OS first also makes it harder to port to other platforms as it is a rather idiosyncratic platform. If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting so…

I'm making an assumption that the majority (if not entirety) of GitHub employees use a Mac, so why wouldn't they make an editor for themselves on a platform that they use? I doubt they're doing it to bolster the OSX ecosystem as much as meet their own needs.

Because the product they provide is tailored to open source/free software. No matter how much you might be enamoured by Apple and its polished products it is hard to get around the fact that these are the opposite of open and free.

Remember what happened when Linus decided he wanted use BitKeeper to maintain Linux? Also remember how that worked out in the end? Free and/or open source software and closed, proprietary companies often make odd bedfellows.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by dovel »

dsego wrote: post #66
dovel wrote: post #23

What makes this so slow? Is it because it is written in JS?

Nope, JS is fast enough. But it uses html for rendering the UI and syntax highlighting. Here is one line of C code " if (inLen " in atom markup: if ( inLen < 1 ) {

Thanks for the reply. So, is there no way of speeding it up without moving away from HTML?

Is the html generated from JS? or is it static? would that make it faster? (newb questions)

Thanks!

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by dsego »

dovel wrote: post #113
dsego wrote: post #66

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Nope, JS is fast enough. But it uses html for rendering the UI and syntax highlighting. Here is one line of C code " if (inLen " in atom markup: if ( inLen < 1 ) {

Thanks for the reply. So, is there no way of speeding it up without moving away from HTML? Is the html generated from JS? or is it static? would that make it faster? (newb questions) Thanks!

I think the editor uses the same underlying technology that Chrome uses to display web pages. That's a lot of overhead for a text editor, but it makes it really easy to extend and do crazy things, basically anything that is possible in a browser. I honestly don't know what would make it faster.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by aram »

iancarroll wrote: post #115
aram wrote: post #37

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Yup, results in {"message":"Not Found"}

The command works fine, putting it in your URL bar doesn't.

This was the contents of the file created by cURL. I wasn't the only case by upvotes.

However, I tried right now once more and it seems that it's available again.

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by younesrafie »

sveme wrote: post #86
Tohhou wrote: post #77

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How dare they collect usage data to improve their free product!!!

It doesn't matter whether it is free or not. My only aim was to provide information that might be relevant for some people interested in trying out Atom (admittedly I mixed this information with my personal position towards Google and the ever-present tracking aka surveillance) so that they know the implicit price of its usage. You are free to use Atom or anything else, but you should always have as much information…

isn't that the purpose of the free software community? you find a malicious feature then you modify the software source code and release a clean version for interested people?

Re: Download Atom editor without an invite

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Post by Wintamute »

uu wrote: post #70
Jxnathan wrote: post #68

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MD5 (Atom.zip) = 5454bd3a8271c93f5225cd2b57cdab81

$ shasum -a 256 Atom.zip 4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1 Atom.zip

I'm getting something different today:

ababcd70ccaad1cba63f9b0a6fb1a566c4cca98c87333ddc7a9d2b2f81fd415e

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