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Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by sdegutis » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

ollyculverhouse wrote: post #3

sdegutis wrote: post #2

My real gripe with using web rendering isn't that it doesn't look native (the "native look" changes every year, so who cares if we deviate)... no, it's that it's slow and sluggish and resource-hungry. I honestly don't feel comfortable running Atom on my laptop.

Does that mean that you haven't yet tried Atom on your laptop? I haven't however haven't heard complaints about performance...

I did try it on my laptop, but not for long enough to hear the fan running. However the CPU does go pretty crazy just using Chrome on my laptop, so I fear it'll do the same with Atom.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by purephase » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

It's definitely slick. While comparisons with ST are obvious, I find it a touch more polished. One example is that the "find all" results page is automatically updated whenever you modify the results. So, if you replacing a bunch of text, the results are updated in real-time each time the files are saved.

Two gripes that I have so far are:

- The actual integration with GH does not work for me. E.g. Git blame does nothing. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot yet.

- I can't open files (or even see them) if they're in .gitignore. I can't figure out how to turn this off.

All in all though, I like it so far. I'm excited that the community seems to have hopped on it so quickly with packages so it will be interesting to see where it goes.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by jimhart3000 » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:16 PM UTC

Anyone know how quickly they're adding people to the beta at this point? Should I hold my breath on the invite I requested, or should I stop reading these articles that are making me increasingly jealous? :)

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by jareds » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

How long is it taking to get an invite through the normal github signup? I'd like to try this out to see if it is accessible with screen reading software although the answer is probably not really.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by davexunit » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:27 PM UTC

The glaring ethical issue remains that the core of Atom is nonfree. From what I've read, the source code will be viewable but not redistributable and the public can submit pull requests. If this is true, it means that GitHub is intending to trick users into providing gratis labor for their product without retention of copyright for their contribution.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by canthonytucci » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:31 PM UTC

jimhart3000 wrote: post #13

Anyone know how quickly they're adding people to the beta at this point? Should I hold my breath on the invite I requested, or should I stop reading these articles that are making me increasingly jealous? :)

put your email in your profile :) or just email me. I have one left.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by paperwork » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:32 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #15

The glaring ethical issue remains that the core of Atom is nonfree. From what I've read, the source code will be viewable but not redistributable and the public can submit pull requests. If this is true, it means that GitHub is intending to trick users into providing gratis labor for their product without retention of copyright for their contribution.

I don't think this rises to the level of an ethical issue.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by legohead » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

> Is It Worth All of the Hype? Who really cares?

well, me.. that's why I'm reading your blog

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by dchuk » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #15

The glaring ethical issue remains that the core of Atom is nonfree. From what I've read, the source code will be viewable but not redistributable and the public can submit pull requests. If this is true, it means that GitHub is intending to trick users into providing gratis labor for their product without retention of copyright for their contribution.

I'm not well versed in the nuances of software licensing. Are there prominent examples of other projects using a similar setup? Or is Github unique in this?

Or is it a case where Github's size/reach makes them unique in this at scale?

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

I love this editor! Instantly switched to it - now to wait for some Gophers to create some neat packages for Go.

This editor is so easy to extend that it took me three hours to learn how to tweak the UI from scratch (and I have NO Nodejs experience - dependencies are easy to install).

https://github.com/sergiotapia/atom-darcula

Everything is tweakable using CSS and that's fantastic. It's super fast as well, no difference whatever between this and Sublime Text 3 for me. Love it and will gladly buy it once it leaves Beta.