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Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Re: Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Post by badloginagain »

I dont know much about Atom. How does it compare to Sublime Text/Notepad++? I've recently switched to Sublime Text, but currently not beholden to anything.

How does it compare to an IDE, like Eclipse or Visual Studio (being the two I've used)? Is Atom an orange and an IDE an apple?

Re: Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Post by KurtMueller »

badloginagain wrote: post #2

I dont know much about Atom. How does it compare to Sublime Text/Notepad++? I've recently switched to Sublime Text, but currently not beholden to anything. How does it compare to an IDE, like Eclipse or Visual Studio (being the two I've used)? Is Atom an orange and an IDE an apple?

It's very much akin to ST3. Atom is significantly better and much more useable than when it was first released. I now use it as my main editor. I'm happy to support an open-source, community driven text editor of this quality.

Re: Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Post by joefitzgerald »

A huge thanks to the Atom team (https://github.com/benogle in particular) for embracing a community package and bringing it back into the core of Atom.

This is the killer feature of Atom in my mind: the community around it, and the rate with which contributions can be made and then absorbed into the core.

Re: Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Post by binaryanomaly »

joefitzgerald wrote: post #4

A huge thanks to the Atom team ( https://github.com/benogle in particular) for embracing a community package and bringing it back into the core of Atom. This is the killer feature of Atom in my mind: the community around it, and the rate with which contributions can be made and then absorbed into the core.

So it is.

Re: Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Post by jvilk »

badloginagain wrote: post #2

I dont know much about Atom. How does it compare to Sublime Text/Notepad++? I've recently switched to Sublime Text, but currently not beholden to anything. How does it compare to an IDE, like Eclipse or Visual Studio (being the two I've used)? Is Atom an orange and an IDE an apple?

Like Sublime Text, it's somewhere between an IDE and a text editor. For example, both Sublime Text and Atom have a TypeScript plugin that uses the TypeScript language service to highlight compilation errors as you type, and to provide semantically-correct autocomplete suggestions. These are features typically expected in an IDE.

However, neither integrates with a debugger like a traditional IDE. You'll likely drop to a terminal or external tools to run / test / debug your program. (I'm sure they both have a plugin to make terminal commands a keyboard shortcut away, though.)

Hope that helps. It's a fantastic editor, although it can be a bit RAM heavy on my aging MacBook Air.

Re: Atom's autocomplete just got better

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Post by mcao »

badloginagain wrote: post #2

I dont know much about Atom. How does it compare to Sublime Text/Notepad++? I've recently switched to Sublime Text, but currently not beholden to anything. How does it compare to an IDE, like Eclipse or Visual Studio (being the two I've used)? Is Atom an orange and an IDE an apple?

I'm using Atom for a current project and so far I really like it. I think the main selling point is that you can install packages to customize it for your needs. For instance, I use Visual Studio as my main IDE, but it doesn't have support for JSX files. I open up Atom, install a few packages, and I now can edit/lint/compile JSX with full syntax highlighting.
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