Every now and then I’m reminded of why I decided to stop chasing the shiny new and just go back to emacs.
Sunsetting Atom
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#102What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
~10 years ago I was a Sublime 2 user surrounded by sad TextMate users—sad because TextMate had stagnated and was clearly on its way out and "everyone" had jumped to Sublime. When Atom was released, Sublime became the editor in decline.
It seemed to me that there would always be an endless cycle of boom and bust with editors. It was a cycle with more in common with fashion than craft, and I wondered if I might end up wasting an inordinate amount of time switching editors throughout my career without any upside. So rather than switch to Atom, only to switch again a few years later, I set about with adopting Vim.
The choice seems to have been correct as there will always be a new editor (that's more or less the same as the old editor) that catches hold, but I wanted stability. Vim gives me stability, and the only other editor I'd consider would be Emacs for similar reasons.
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#103I know a lot of people love vscode but are there any people who have tried something like IDEA/WebStorm/PHPStorm/etc that then went back to vscode? I had to help a developer setup deploys to a dev server from vscode the other day and I wanted to pull my hair out. I'll admit it's at least in part due to not using vscode myself but I was a heavy Sublime Text user which is very similar to vscode when it comes to how you…
I use IDEA and VS Code and Notepad++ and ...
I'm kind of surprised you did a deploy from VS Code. I would have assumed there was another tool for that. I do most of my git and ssh/scp stuff from the command line because I'm never quite sure what the tool will try to do to "help me out"
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#104Even though Atom was much "lighter" than VS Code in terms of UI, VS Code had so much more development resources thrown at it that it was ultimately much speedier than Atom. IIRC, even Brackets was faster.
I see people complaining about the death of Atom, but in the past few years there just hasn't been a use case where Atom was the best choice.
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#105Atom has been dead for years, this is just the state funeral. The situation now is: * Sublime for the Williamsburg corpo-hipsters * emacs and vim for the wizards and furries * VSCode for all the normies who just want to get on with doing their job and don't feel a need to express their identity or politics through choice of editor * WebStorm for the chads with the monster rigs to run it
VSCode is for Xbox gamers.
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#106Atom has been dead for years, this is just the state funeral. The situation now is: * Sublime for the Williamsburg corpo-hipsters * emacs and vim for the wizards and furries * VSCode for all the normies who just want to get on with doing their job and don't feel a need to express their identity or politics through choice of editor * WebStorm for the chads with the monster rigs to run it
* Textmate & BBEdit for people who were using Macs for development before they took over the tech industry.
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#107I still prefer Atom's UX design over VSCode and I can't explain why. Amazing job on that front! I hope it gets traction with community support.
Me too. Even if you have a great theme in VSC you're still stuck with the sidebar and the bad Microsoft-y typography choices everywhere.
I was able to make VSCode look pretty great with a bit of work by following the ebook Make VSCode Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/
great fonts, minimal visual clutter etc
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#108Atom has been dead for years, this is just the state funeral. The situation now is: * Sublime for the Williamsburg corpo-hipsters * emacs and vim for the wizards and furries * VSCode for all the normies who just want to get on with doing their job and don't feel a need to express their identity or politics through choice of editor * WebStorm for the chads with the monster rigs to run it
> emacs and vim for the wizards and furries
…respectively? TIL I’m a furry.
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#109Good memories with Atom. I had a silly "super mode" extension on it that gave me streaks when typing uninterrupted. It has lots of action graphics and screen shakes, I loved it.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
and then vim again. It will come full circle :)
vim bindings in Emacs. :-)
I went for evil-mode for a while, then I decided to just go full Emacs. I still use vim sometimes, but I've come to enjoy the Emacs bindings.
Now I just need to install keymapper and convert all my M-w and C-y inputs to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.