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Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by rcchen »

jscheel wrote: post #2

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

I would say that it's at 90+ percent feature parity with ST3; the only real downside is that the package/extension ecosystem is nowhere near as mature as with ST3 right now, but that looks like it is changing very quickly. In addition, ST3 is closed source vs. Atom is open source, and that alone could be a good reason for a number of people to switch.

My recommendation is to give Atom a chance, see if it fits into your workflow (whether it has native support for the languages/frameworks you work in, or if packages exist). If it works out, then you have a viable alternative to ST3 :)

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by szastupov »

jscheel wrote: post #2

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

At least worth trying. I like atom a lot but it's still noticeably slower than ST3 on my late 2011 Macbook, even with SSD.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by Kequc »

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?

A friend of mine develops in Swift, we're doing a project together involving audio processing... there are a lot of audio and Swift related questions. You have no idea how much people talk about Taylor Swift on the internet.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by squeaky-clean »

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.

They've removed the hard limit on this, but the app will still lag or freeze on large files. Sublime is much, much smoother on a 10mb file for example.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by melling »

hitlin37 wrote: post #8

i have been using it for 3-4 months now and its getting there each month. Sometimes the plugins fail but this could be because of the rapid development cycle of atom. On the positive side, its a good text editor, easy interaction, plugin install super easy. A downside is that its not easy on your ram though. Consumes more than what vim would do. But overall, if you need a modern editor, this is the way forward.

How well does it support other languages other than JavaScript? Will I be able to do mobile Android and iOS development at some point, or Haskell, Go, etc?

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by octref »

Congrats!

I started using Atom a year ago, but at that time it was very unstable and the performance sucks so I switched back to Vim.

This 1.0 still has something to pine for: some of the essential packages are still not updated for the 1.0 API (vim-mode, etc), and when processing large files it still slows down significantly, but as they say, it's now a good foundation to build upon.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by rev_bird »

jscheel wrote: post #2

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

I'm not a heavy plugin user, so I don't get a lot of the power-user benefits of ST, but the git integration alone has been worth switching. If you're editing a file under source control, it keeps track of changed segments (and files) out of the box. Nice, simple tool that's been really handy even though I only switched last week.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by clayh »

Kequc wrote: post #23
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?

A friend of mine develops in Swift, we're doing a project together involving audio processing... there are a lot of audio and Swift related questions. You have no idea how much people talk about Taylor Swift on the internet.

To be fair, Swift 2.0 really did mark the obsolescence of Taylor Swift.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by veidr »

jscheel wrote: post #2

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

No, it still fares very poorly when matched up against ST3 (or Textmate 2, or basically any high-quality native editor). It is slow slow slow, and has lots of little quirks which are clearly a result of the wacky way they decided to build a text editor.

BUT.... it is way, way better than it used to be. I keep it installed and use it from time to time, to let it update itself and see how it has grown.

It clearly has momentum, and computers clearly are getting faster... probably one day the slowness of it won't matter. But it still matters today -- Atom is noticeably slow on the fastest Mac notebook you can currently buy.

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