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Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by ulisesrmzroche »

Dolimiter wrote: post #8

Genuine question. Are people actually using Atom in production projects? I found it unusably slow because it's browser-based; a generation behind Sublime Text in speed.

I switched to Sublime from Vim because it looked prettier, but Atom looks better out the box. Also, Sublime barely moves on my 09 tiny macbook air, while Atom performs well.

On the 2014 iMac, slowdowns on big files I barely noticed, what I don't like is that if you have the editor open forever, it starts moaning like a dying whale, regardless of the beefiness of your rig.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by thegeomaster »

Achshar wrote: post #20
thegeomaster wrote: post #7

I think this is less useful than it looks like. When editing code, I'm not browsing StackOverflow or switching to StackOverflow so much that the actual Alt+Tab-ing to the browser window is the bottleneck. And when I do Alt+Tab to the browser window, I usually search Google for what I want to achieve, and yes, most of the times I end up on StackOverflow, but sometimes other sites, most notably Wikipedia, can help me b…

> I'm not browsing StackOverflow or switching to StackOverflow so much that the actual Alt+Tab-ing to the browser window is the bottleneck. Ever used multiple monitors? I used to have the exact same issue but multiple monitors save so much minimize maximize time.

Perhaps my wording wasn't clear enough—I was actually saying that minimize-maximize time wasn't a bottleneck in my case because I don't switch so much.

But I agree with you, multiple monitors would help tremendously. Even more so when doing some web development work, when changes can be immediately previewed.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by Chris911 »

rjzzleep wrote: post #6

i guess the vim, sublime, etc people that don't know it yet are gonna be happy, because it means that they'll find out about howdoi now: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi pip install howdoi vim plugin: https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi one of the emacs plugins: https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi one of the sublime plugins: https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste

howdoi uses Google to find results on Stack Overflow while I used the Stack Exchange API for this package. I'm a bit disappointed with the results returned by the API both sorted by relevance and by votes. Down the road I'd like to merge the results from Google and the API to get the best set of answers.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

#25

Post by oleyb »

Dolimiter wrote: post #8

Genuine question. Are people actually using Atom in production projects? I found it unusably slow because it's browser-based; a generation behind Sublime Text in speed.

I used it a month or two ago and found it unusably slow but recently gave it another shot after they released an update and now it's pretty much on par with Sublime on my system. It might be worth you giving it another go.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by fidlefodl »

rjzzleep wrote: post #6

i guess the vim, sublime, etc people that don't know it yet are gonna be happy, because it means that they'll find out about howdoi now: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi pip install howdoi vim plugin: https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi one of the emacs plugins: https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi one of the sublime plugins: https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste

Love the links, ty!

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by shekhar101 »

This is neat. I use a similar tool on VS 2013 [0]. MS launched it very recently. It's called Bing code search. Pretty nifty, Although it's lot advanced but I hope tools like this grow to be better and comparable to this one. Anyone using vs 2013, do check this out.

[0] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by mbillie1 »

ulisesrmzroche wrote: post #21
Dolimiter wrote: post #8

Genuine question. Are people actually using Atom in production projects? I found it unusably slow because it's browser-based; a generation behind Sublime Text in speed.

I switched to Sublime from Vim because it looked prettier, but Atom looks better out the box. Also, Sublime barely moves on my 09 tiny macbook air, while Atom performs well. On the 2014 iMac, slowdowns on big files I barely noticed, what I don't like is that if you have the editor open forever, it starts moaning like a dying whale, regardless of the beefiness of your rig.

>I switched to Sublime from Vim because it looked prettier

I find this to be a very curious reason to switch from Vim... were you a very experienced Vim user? Ever give MacVim a shot for the different color schemes? Don't get me wrong, I like my editor to look nice also, but Sublime isn't exactly a prettier version of Vim - they have very different strengths and weaknesses.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by jpollock »

Watch out for the license. The source appears to be licensed under CC-BY-SA, which at the very least requires attribution, and might be GPL3-style viral.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-w... http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

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