Moving Atom to React

#1

Post by _pius » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 9:38 PM UTC

Re: Moving Atom to React

#2

Post by eknkc » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

Just checked the new version briefly. Scrolling performance seems to be much better, especially on a large display with fullscreen editor. Atom is getting pretty decent for daily use.

Re: Moving Atom to React

#3

Post by tolas » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:02 PM UTC

eknkc wrote: post #2

Just checked the new version briefly. Scrolling performance seems to be much better, especially on a large display with fullscreen editor. Atom is getting pretty decent for daily use.

Haven't been following it too much recently, but just curious, why use it over Sublime?

Re: Moving Atom to React

#4

Post by desireco42 » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:07 PM UTC

I finally tried Atom and it looks pretty much like SublimeText, which I use quite a bit. Is there a reference somewhere where it says it was inspired by good work of SublimeText editor?

Ah Google always provides:

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2038

Re: Moving Atom to React

#5

Post by RSO » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:13 PM UTC

I've been using Atom for a while now, and I'm really impressed with the progress that it's showing. There are still some times that I'm forced to switch back to Sublime (mass-editing a large text file for instance), but I'm really enjoying the experience!

Re: Moving Atom to React

#6

Post by regularjack » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:14 PM UTC

tolas wrote: post #3

eknkc wrote: post #2

Just checked the new version briefly. Scrolling performance seems to be much better, especially on a large display with fullscreen editor. Atom is getting pretty decent for daily use.

Haven't been following it too much recently, but just curious, why use it over Sublime?

I'm also a Sublime user but the fact that Atom is open source might be reason enough to change.

Re: Moving Atom to React

#7

Post by eknkc » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:17 PM UTC

tolas wrote: post #3

eknkc wrote: post #2

Just checked the new version briefly. Scrolling performance seems to be much better, especially on a large display with fullscreen editor. Atom is getting pretty decent for daily use.

Haven't been following it too much recently, but just curious, why use it over Sublime?

I still use Sublime mostly. However, Atom seems to have a thriving ecosystem around it. There are a lot of high quality Atom packages. I believe it's mostly because Atom has a more accessible developer interface for newcomers, being it is just a web app. And it's open source.

Also, Sublime seems to be abandoned for a while. Not that it stopped working or anything.. But I believe the lack of development will push people away eventually.

Re: Moving Atom to React

#8

Post by virtualwhys » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:18 PM UTC

tolas wrote: post #3

eknkc wrote: post #2

Just checked the new version briefly. Scrolling performance seems to be much better, especially on a large display with fullscreen editor. Atom is getting pretty decent for daily use.

Haven't been following it too much recently, but just curious, why use it over Sublime?

Not nagged to buy within an hour of installation, I'd consider that a plus in favor of Atom.

Of course, Atom is open source and has potentially huge community backing to push it forward (vs. pleas for features and fixes to the other editor's seemingly absent overlord).

Re: Moving Atom to React

#9

Post by TheMakeA » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:18 PM UTC

One thing that I would like to see is multiple process support. At least once per day, one tab will become unresponsive (for seemingly no reason) and I have to kill the entire editor and reopen it.

Re: Moving Atom to React

#10

Post by forrestthewoods » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:22 PM UTC

I hope that some day Atom is fast, full of features, and on Windows. My gut tells me it will be a long, long time til it replaces Sublime Text 3 as my editor of choice. =[

Edit: Since several people chimed in with the same thing. I'll check out the windows binaries for. I expect to use ST3 for awhile longer still, at least until Windows is a first class citizen, but this will be great to monitor Atom's development. Thanks!