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Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by mmcclure » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:23 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?

tl;dr At this point: not much. That might change soon, though.

When I switched laptops recently, I made the conscious decision to only install Atom to see how things went...so far so good, although at times it does bog down pretty noticeably, and this is by far my biggest complaint. There's also no alt-drag support (to create a straight line of cursors like Sublime), but that's a fairly small gripe.

I loved the plugin ecosystem for Sublime, and in the short time Atom's been around, the ecosystem has already exploded. Lots of awesome themes and plugins are already available, with more coming every day. The low barrier to entry (most things can be done with JS / CSS) probably has a lot to do with that.

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by zhemao » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:33 PM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #10

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. T…

You can install it on Windows. You just have to build it yourself.

https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/docs/build-instruct...

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by sandyarmstrong » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:39 PM UTC

Weird behavior with scroll wheel. It seems to not stop where I'd expect. Works great with trackpad, so I guess that's what the developers must be using.

Fast scrolling by dragging the scrollbar nub is pretty slow, still, but this is definitely an improvement.

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by mrbogle » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:40 PM UTC

TheMakeA wrote: post #9

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.

Try the new editor, it may help with this.

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by abritishguy » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:44 PM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #10

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. T…

Prebuilt windows downloads: http://atom.someguy123.com/

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by Swizec » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:48 PM UTC

eknkc wrote: post #7

tolas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 peop…

I just find it funny that replacing "Atom" with "Emacs" in your argument doesn't feel out of place at all.

Well, Emacs Lisp might be less newcomer friendly and it's not a webapp. But still, thriving ecosystem - check, accessible to developers - check, huge number of packages - check, runs everywhere - check.

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by mrbogle » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:49 PM UTC

sandyarmstrong wrote: post #13

Weird behavior with scroll wheel. It seems to not stop where I'd expect. Works great with trackpad, so I guess that's what the developers must be using. Fast scrolling by dragging the scrollbar nub is pretty slow, still, but this is definitely an improvement.

What platform? What kind of mouse are you using? The team uses all different mice. I use an apple magic mouse, and it works well.

You can change the scroll sensitivity in the settings.

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by JoelHobson » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:49 PM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #10

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. T…

It's already got a huge amount of features when you include packages (and installing them is completely frictionless). Unofficial windows builds exist too[1]. And as someone who's used to heavyweight IDEs, Atom is already pretty fast (not that I'm going to complain about the react update...)

[1] http://atom.someguy123.com/

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by 1qaz2wsx3edc » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 10:54 PM UTC

regularjack wrote: post #6

tolas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Especially after going full open source, I have a lot of respect for that change (http://blog.atom.io/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-source.html). Otherwise I feel it would of gotten stagnate. <3 githubbers

Re: Moving Atom to React

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Post by elwell » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 11:13 PM UTC

Not trying to start an editor war, but I've been trying to learn Emacs for the past week. The learning curve is still at the point of being frustrating/painful. Should I stick with it or download Atom? (Anyone have a solid opinion between the two?)