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Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by agmcleod »

jscheel wrote: post #2

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

Comes down to preference. I still use sublime for opening really large files. But otherwise i stick with Atom. I've found when using linters, typescript compile checking and such Atom is just better. The notifications built in and such are great, where as the bottom bar for listing that kind of stuff in sublime feels archaic.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by kbd »

Mahn wrote: post #56

I really want to like Atom but it's such a pity that they went for CoffeeScript instead of plain ES5/ES6.

That's something I like about it.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by d0m »

Is it possible to use atom right in the browser, rather than in a separate app? I know facebook engineers have an in-browser editor.. is this atom or something else?

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Post by tlrobinson »

Mahn wrote: post #56

I really want to like Atom but it's such a pity that they went for CoffeeScript instead of plain ES5/ES6.

Do you really care that much which dialect of JavaScript your text editor is written in?

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by joshburgess »

I've gotta say, honestly, I'm preferring Visual Studio Code over Atom simply due to the fact that it seems MUCH more stable and lightweight. Atom is very visually appealing, and I'm a fan of the project, in general, but it constantly freezes up and crashes on me. I think I'll be sticking with VS Code & Sublime.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by geoffharcourt »

Mahn wrote: post #56

I really want to like Atom but it's such a pity that they went for CoffeeScript instead of plain ES5/ES6.

That's really only a problem if you're contributing to the core, right? You can write your own packages in JS, and if you're just a user of the editor I don't see how that matters.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by shadowmint »

woo! awesome work. I use atom for everything now.

    ...but realizing the full potential of Atom is about more
    than polish. We're considering questions such as: What 
    does super deep git integration look like? What does 
    "social coding" mean in a text editor? How do we enable 
    package authors to build IDE-level features for their
    favorite language?
O_o you what?

Things I'm interested in ---> A hackable, fast, extensible editor.

Things I have no interest in at all ---> 'Super Deep' github integration, 'social' coding in my text editor.

Dont get me wrong, atoms a great piece of work, and making it extensible for building custom tooling is really great, but what on earth are you talking about?

I hope this is just 'and now we're going to make some plugins' talking...

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by cnp »

I made the switch yesterday not knowing 1.0 would be released today, and I am seriously psyched. Their Vim bindings are now good enough, and there are tons of tweaks you can do to make them better (which will inspire more people to contribute). I found a few bugs here and there related to installing / removing packages (just checked and 1.0 fixes them), but nothing major, and was able to migrate my mammoth .vimrc configuration file over over the course of an afternoon, with everything I need having already been developed by the community. Super fast, too.

Also! I was able to create the colorscheme of my dreams in about 15 minutes, thanks to to the dev tools integration.

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