Have they fixed the sluggishness ?
The installer is almost 10x times as large as the sublime text installer.
Please leave "web technologies" where they belong.
Atom 1.0
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Re: Atom 1.0
#102I 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.
The UI library is in coffee script; if you want use a UI for your plugin, youre pretty much stuck using it.
(..and yes, its technically possible to do with plain js, but I challenge any of the 'but just use js' folk to link to a popular plugin, with a UI, that does)
Re: Atom 1.0
#103alias mate="atom" - old habits die hard.
I still keep TextMate 2 around for simple text processing.
Atom treats everything like a project, which is great for projects, I don't mind my project taking 5 seconds to open, since I rarely close it. But for a little note, a copy-paste bin, or a quick regex? Textmate 2 is instant, better at larger files, and has the best find-replace window of all my editors.
Re: Atom 1.0
#104i 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?
i use it for some c development markdown, python, etc.
Re: Atom 1.0
#105I 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 con…
What are the main advantages that atom gives you over native vim?
From the perspective of a web app developer it's just so modern. The language of the interface takes all of the (admittedly subjective) best-practice lessons that the web has taught us over the years and embeds them directly in, and then lets you hack them apart however you wish -- simply. Code editing works without a thousand inconsistencies, and then you have things like embedding your terminal directly with ease (its trivial to create a tmux like environment), etc.
The limitations feel very few, and as someone who spent a LOT of time getting my Vim environment exactly as I wanted it, switching over to Atom was a breeze as I went through my .vimrc trying to match functionality; most of it was already there.
One thing I wish they would implement (and I'm sure it will come with time) is the ability to fully navigate the file tree with the keyboard, similar to NERDTree. All you can do right now is arrow up and down, after toggling over.
I've heard its like Emacs -- and now I know what people are talking about!
Re: Atom 1.0
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Eh. Why is 1.0 out already? Keyboard layouts which use AltGr are still broken. Perhaps such keyboards don't concern that many people?
AltGr is used by many layouts such as German, Turkish, French, Polish, and US International. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key Also, this was supposed to be fixed in 1.0. I don't know why they decided to release 1.0 prematurely.
Yes, I'm from Germany and had the same problem.
LiveScript is a pain with it :\
Re: Atom 1.0
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the main advantages that atom gives you over native vim?
From the perspective of a web app developer it's just so modern. The language of the interface takes all of the (admittedly subjective) best-practice lessons that the web has taught us over the years and embeds them directly in, and then lets you hack them apart however you wish -- simply. Code editing works without a thousand inconsistencies, and then you have things like embedding your terminal directly with ease (…
I haven't looked at Atom yet, but can it parse the vimrc file to load the right settings?
Re: Atom 1.0
#108what'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?
Do you mean that syndication is on the verge of becoming obsolete, or that Atom specifically is on the verge of becoming obsolete? (And: Is either of them actually true? There are still plenty of blogs around, and I thought quite a lot of them had Atom feeds.)
Well, this is kind ot but the trend is to include less and less content in the feed to drive views and clicks, they are not dead per se but I find them less and less useful. Yahoo pipes did work for a time, but maintenance time and effort is just too much and I just stopped caring about most blogs fighting back.
Just doctor mc ninja I follow because it's awesome, but these days if there is not a third party maintained pipe and there is no content in the feed I just skip town.
Re: Atom 1.0
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the perspective of a web app developer it's just so modern. The language of the interface takes all of the (admittedly subjective) best-practice lessons that the web has taught us over the years and embeds them directly in, and then lets you hack them apart however you wish -- simply. Code editing works without a thousand inconsistencies, and then you have things like embedding your terminal directly with ease (…
I haven't looked at Atom yet, but can it parse the vimrc file to load the right settings?
Nope. Most of the code editor settings are there in the main config to be tweaked, and new packages can be installed right inside the preferences / command line.
If you have a lot of style settings in your vimrc, the ability to use an actual stylesheet (when combined with the native chromium dev tools) make tweaking the look and feel absolutely trivial.
Re: Atom 1.0
#110So where do I get that nifty terminal they were using in the video?