Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

Post by sigzero » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

saberworks wrote: post #3

Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?

Post by qz_ » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

Post by cormacrelf » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC

shmageggy wrote: post #8

tombert wrote: post #2

I'm actually kind of happy about this. While I don't personally use Atom at all, I think it's good that an open source editor is getting extremely popular. Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.

> Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it. Same here, and when I recently ran into some built in limitations with gvim regarding its inability to easily deal with proportional width fonts, I switched to Atom. I've been really happy so far -- the vim mode plugin is nice. Atom isn't perfect, but it's good enough for now, and the extensibility model makes me confident t…

Post by Touche » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC

jsprogrammer wrote: post #9

saberworks wrote: post #3

Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?

If that creeps you out, you should probably run a completely closed firewall, where you specifically enable applications' access to the network. I don't know if it is new normal, or old normal, or even normal, but many applications have been doing it for a long time now.

Post by bithush » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 6:37 PM UTC

nish1500 wrote: post #6

Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text. I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.