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Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by azeirah » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

adamors wrote: post #4

Jesus, I've never realized how similar it was to Sublime Text.

In use, it is very different from Sublime Text. Especially the plugin system is far more powerful.

I still prefer Sublime though, Atom is still too immature, and some packages I need don't exist yet or are far too unstable.

That, and Atom is just far, faaaar too slow at the moment.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by robert_nsu » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

tjohns wrote: post #5

Hopefully the Linux version isn't too far away! Speaking of which, their distribution mechanism (Chocolatey) seems interesting. For folks who use Windows, I'm sure an apt-get/brew equivalent would be really useful. The last time I tried to develop on Windows, I was totally shocked to discover that there wasn't any kind of package manager inside Cygwin -- and trying to install command line utilities outside of Cygwin…

I've had it running on xubuntu 14.04 for close to a month now. The biggest pain was during installation, it only gave root the read flag on some of the installed files. It had weird side effects like having to run as root before changing the theme. Once the permissions were fixed, it ran smoothly.

Which utilities were you trying to install? In my experience, I have a much better time using PowerShell and native tools for Windows.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by jareds » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

I'm glad I didn't waste the time to build this my self several weeks ago. It's completely inaccessible with my screen reading software.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by MozMorris » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

adamors wrote: post #4

Jesus, I've never realized how similar it was to Sublime Text.

I said something similar on seeing Sublime after using TextMate for 5 years.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by moretti » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

program wrote: post #3

The joke: a past Microsoft keynote by Steve Ballmer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

The remix is even better :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMH3qrHFEM

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by re1ser » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

Is there a way to speed up boot time? It takes a bit less than 4 seconds on i7 to load up text file, which is way too long for a text editor.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by VikingCoder » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Atom can't handle opening files more than 2mb in size right now. That makes it stunningly useless.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a80ae/atom_now...

Also, the install has 11,000 files in it.

This is amateur hour.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by Jare » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC

tjohns wrote: post #5

Hopefully the Linux version isn't too far away! Speaking of which, their distribution mechanism (Chocolatey) seems interesting. For folks who use Windows, I'm sure an apt-get/brew equivalent would be really useful. The last time I tried to develop on Windows, I was totally shocked to discover that there wasn't any kind of package manager inside Cygwin -- and trying to install command line utilities outside of Cygwin…

Chocolatey is good, but last time I set up a PC and tried it, I had issues figuring out which version of the package to install (installer or portable), and I couldn't specify the location for each (I want small & frequent apps on SSD, everything else on HDD).

But I understand Chocolatey is just a suggestion, they also distribute Atom windows builds directly (link in the frontpage), right?

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by adamb_ » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

re1ser wrote: post #16

Is there a way to speed up boot time? It takes a bit less than 4 seconds on i7 to load up text file, which is way too long for a text editor.

Notepad++ takes ~10 seconds to load on my Windows 7 dev machine...

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

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Post by teh_klev » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

program wrote: post #3

The joke: a past Microsoft keynote by Steve Ballmer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

I thought the "web developer love" reprise was done in very good humour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY#t=102

There's a rough and ready likeableness about Steve Ballmer's personality I've always kinda liked.