Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Doesn't indicate perf improvements... Not trying to troll, but that surprises me given the large number of complaints about performance.

Yeah, Atom is really my favorite editor at the moment in terms of features and add-ons but is totally unusable for me due to various performance issues. Not only does it choke on large files but something like a full-project search can take upwards of 30s to finish while Sublime Text finishes it in about 2-3s. I'd like to switch personally, but I can't until some major performance improvements happen. YMMV.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by sandstrom » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 9:45 PM UTC

nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Doesn't indicate perf improvements... Not trying to troll, but that surprises me given the large number of complaints about performance.

I think it's gotten much better this year. It used to be somewhat slow (especially on large files), but it's alright now. Still room for improvement though.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by benatkin » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

sandstrom wrote: post #5

nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Doesn't indicate perf improvements... Not trying to troll, but that surprises me given the large number of complaints about performance.

I think it's gotten much better this year. It used to be somewhat slow (especially on large files), but it's alright now. Still room for improvement though.

Many devs could get a faster computer, too. I'm considering getting a Surface Book.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by santaclaus » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Doesn't indicate perf improvements... Not trying to troll, but that surprises me given the large number of complaints about performance.

The performance problems on a clean Atom install are incredibly vexing. Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is built on similar foundations and has great performance, so I don't think Atom's performance problems are fundamental.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by _Wintermute » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

Is Atom still collecting users data? Last I paid attention there was a big furore about having to opt-out and the legality in Europe.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by kennywinker » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 10:06 PM UTC

I've been using Visual Studio Code a bit this past month and there is a lot I like about it. Anyone have thoughts on Code vs Atom? I know Code is based on Atom, but I'm not really clear on how they differ

edit: correction. After asking this, I read up a bit and Code is based on Electron which is the core of Atom, but they're fairly different after that.. Code is not a fork of Atom as I thought it was.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by seanwilson » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Doesn't indicate perf improvements... Not trying to troll, but that surprises me given the large number of complaints about performance.

I've been using Atom for over a year and haven't had any major performance problems. Luckily for me I don't have to regularly access code files that are megabytes long but I can see why not being able to do so would be annoying.