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Re: Atom 1.0

#41

Have they resolved the long-standing performance issues present for the last six months? I've tried using Atom numerous times, but the longer it runs, the less stable it gets.

I'm brave/a masochist. I've been using it since the very start. It has come very, very far—performance especially.

Re: Atom 1.0

#42
The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That's not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it's just what draws me to Atom.

It's super easy to hack on and contribute to.

Re: Atom 1.0

#45
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, recent patch increased the limit to blazing 4 MEGABYTES!

People editing files longer than that are certainly in the minority.

Of course, but if you find yourself in one of these instances of editing a large file (search and replacing database dumps is a common use case for me), you'll be disappointed. It's easy to argue that should be left to command line tools, but ST3 actually does a pretty good job at this.

Re: Atom 1.0

#47

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.

Yet when you see a Hacker News headline that is just "Atom 1.0" it is close enough in the same category (tech news) where it can be confusing.

Re: Atom 1.0

#49

The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That's not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it's just what draws me to Atom. It's super easy to hack on and contribute to.

Welcome to what I've felt with Emacs since I first used it.

Might be time to work on some tutorials and examples to make Emacs easier to hack on and contribute to...

Re: Atom 1.0

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, recent patch increased the limit to blazing 4 MEGABYTES!

Without code highlighting though, if I remember correctly. I don't see myself editing a >2MB file containing code, but still...

Code? Sure, probably not. But JSON? Certainly I've come across requests with more than 2MB of JSON.

(You might consider it an abuse of the format, but it is not completely without reason.)

ST3 (well, the plugin for doing it) breezed through prettifying and un-prettifying of the data.

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