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Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by izuzak » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

engi_nerd wrote: post #6

Is it still limited to only editing files < 2 Megabytes? For most people that is not a showstopper, but it may be for some.

No. See these release notes: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v0.208.0

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by Kequc » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #2

I still haven't given Atom a go. Is it worth switching from ST3?

Both are good editors, I haven't tried Atom in about a year. Try it and then report back.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by sehr » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

LoSboccacc wrote: post #3

what's up with name reuse these days. atom (the syndication format) may be on the verge of becoming obsolete, but it's also forgotten and irrelevant already to warrant a name reuse?

Is anyone really going to be confusing a text editor and an outdated rss format

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by flytwokites » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #2

I still haven't given Atom a go. Is it worth switching from ST3?

I only keep using ST because of:

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/5344 https://github.com/atom/fuzzy-finder/issues/57

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by iamd3vil » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #2

I still haven't given Atom a go. Is it worth switching from ST3?

Atom is nice but much slower than ST3. It takes 30 seconds to open a file while ST3 almost instantly loads. It's not worth switching from Sublime.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by Spiritus » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

LoSboccacc wrote: post #3

what's up with name reuse these days. atom (the syndication format) may be on the verge of becoming obsolete, but it's also forgotten and irrelevant already to warrant a name reuse?

I don't see the problem, they aren't even in the same domain.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by teamhappy » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #2

I still haven't given Atom a go. Is it worth switching from ST3?

I switched from Atom back to ST3 a month ago.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by snarfy » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

The site is severely hammered right now. I'd like to try it again to see if the performance issues have improved.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by 13years » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

engi_nerd wrote: post #6

Is it still limited to only editing files < 2 Megabytes? For most people that is not a showstopper, but it may be for some.

This has been improved and no longer has this limit. However, I still find Brackets more responsive in general and is what I still use mostly.

I think the future has a lot of potential though, as Visual Studio Code has demonstrated you can indeed have a very responsive editor built on javascript.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by grayrest » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #2

I still haven't given Atom a go. Is it worth switching from ST3?

If you have a setup that works for you, probably not. Atom's main advantage is that it's in a DOM environment and people could do neat things with it but at the moment the efforts have gone into putting it roughly at feature parity with ST3.