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Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by notastartup » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

Notre1 wrote: post #15

notastartup wrote: post #14

Is there a precompiled binary for windows somewhere? Why is it only available for Mac? I think this feature is very useful.

You can install it via Chocolatey. If you already have Chocolatey installed, then just run: C:\> cinst Atom http://chocolatey.org/packages/Atom

that is super nice.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

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.

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Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by fermiz » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 5:00 PM UTC

Personally, I am shocked that everyone applaudes such a thing on HackerNews. Is that what programming means nowadays ? Copy-pasting random code snippets from StackOverflow, gluing them with other code snippets found elsewhere and hoping that it compiles. Anyway, OP seems to have done a good job; he has identified what modern programming means and provided an excellent tool to increase today programmers productivity. Excellent ... and hopeless.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by notJim » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC

dgabriel wrote: post #4

This is really neat, and it will probably be very useful to some people, but it sets off some very loud warning bells in my head. Is s/o really for copypasta mining? Sometimes, I guess... but still.

> Is s/o really for copypasta mining?

Based on the questions there, it's primarily for that.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by vxNsr » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 6:31 PM UTC

seems to be done atm.

here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by nmjohn » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 7:18 PM UTC

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…

It depends what language I'm working with. Is it one I've used for years? My questions tend to be much more abstract and structure oriented, and I rarely copy anything verbatim.

However if it is something I have less experience with, or just starting to learn, most of my queries I am concerned with the exact details and end up copying verbatim more frequently.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by JoelHobson » Tue, Jun 24, 2014, 2:42 AM UTC

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'm used to heavyweight IDEs like Eclipse, so it's pretty snappy by my standards.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by aniketpant » Tue, Jun 24, 2014, 2:54 AM UTC

I see it is a pretty useless package because switching to Stack Overflow once in a while isn't a big productivity hit for me. I would prefer not having anything except my project code on my window.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by pizza » Tue, Jun 24, 2014, 3:07 AM UTC

plagiarism y/n?

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by evilduck » Tue, Jun 24, 2014, 4:18 AM UTC

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 use it pretty interchangeably with ST3 since most of the keybindings are the same. For Rails, JS and general web work, it's pretty nice. The Atom Linter plugin is nicer than at the Sublime linters I've tried. I've been on it from day one and have encountered a number of bugs, but I do prefer its settings pane and ability to reskin the entire ui easily, the ability to quickly tweak themes and plugins with just html, css and JS and the fairly quick pace of development. I like that they're curating an official package manager with an update UI and an official repo instead of it being 3rd party bolted on functionality. Remapping keys is easier and profiling a slow/problem plugin is doable without resorting to trial and error.

I do wish there was a good way to resize split panes though. And the file size limit sucks when wanting to view logs. Their vim mode is still not emersive (my only comparison are evil-mode, which does a damn fine job, and ST Vintage mode, which is... ok).

It's still new, I'm willing to forgive growing pains and I think it could easily overtake ST eventually, given that it's fully open source, is making faster progress, is free, and offers a whole lot of feature parity. Speed has never really been a problem for me and my codebases, but i can imagine that the web stack its built on could be a source of problems in some scenarios.