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Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #53

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I'm not sure if you're serious or not. If you are serious, I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in why and how it turned out :)

He's serious, it's https://nylas.com/n1 . See https://www.nylas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom (i'm not associated with them)

N1 is the first desktop app I have used for email in more than 10 years and I love it.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #54

I love the concept of Atom and have a lot invested in its success. That being said, I switched back to Sublime because of the responsiveness, and here's why: Programming (for me) is a craft. When I'm in the flow of coding, there's a conversation between me and my program, mediated through the editor (and my REPL). Even a subtle typing lag is enough to subtly disrupt that flow state – the speed of thought and text no…

Atom's speed has increased so much that I usually don't notice a lack of performance anymore. Startup time is one second flat and unless I'm opening huge DB dumps or have dozens of selections at the same time, it feels just like Sublime Text.

I find it's slow for opening large files, but not so far behind other editors. Other than that it's fine.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #127
post #54

I love the concept of Atom and have a lot invested in its success. That being said, I switched back to Sublime because of the responsiveness, and here's why: Programming (for me) is a craft. When I'm in the flow of coding, there's a conversation between me and my program, mediated through the editor (and my REPL). Even a subtle typing lag is enough to subtly disrupt that flow state – the speed of thought and text no…

I just did some benchmarking and discovered switching the Windows theme to Classic reduced the lag with 30-40ms!!!

What if you just try disabling transparency in your current theme?

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #54

I love the concept of Atom and have a lot invested in its success. That being said, I switched back to Sublime because of the responsiveness, and here's why: Programming (for me) is a craft. When I'm in the flow of coding, there's a conversation between me and my program, mediated through the editor (and my REPL). Even a subtle typing lag is enough to subtly disrupt that flow state – the speed of thought and text no…

I agree about the typing lag. It's not just a nit to pick for me. I am reminded of it at every keystroke. I'm also annoyed by it in part because I don't think this should be a problem in this day and age, just because a text editor is supposed to be extensible. We have monstrous performance from Javascript JIT engines today and Atom is perhaps built on top of the best one, yet we wait short moments for letters to appear.

Visual Studio Code works better for me in terms of lag, yet being extensible and similar in concept as well as price. Not quite as extensible as Atom though, not on the order of being able to rebuild the interface and core features as far as I have seen. But enough to offer pretty good suppport for e.g. Go development including linting and debugging, without actually offering this built-in.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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Tested with a real XML file here: # wc -l t.xml 315479 t.xml # wc -c t.xml 10377128 t.xml Unlike Sublime, it doesn't syntax highlight for some reason, but it does open. Opens quite fast, too. Editing, cursor movement, pagination, etc. all super fast. OS X 10.11.3, Atom 1.6.0 on a MacBook Pro (Retina mid-2015, 2.8GHz Core i7, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 M370X).

Interesting -- disabling the xml plugin significantly improves performance for me (but I lose syntax highlighting).

I sure hope it doesn't try to highlight the entire thing, and instead just what is visible on-screen.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #54

I love the concept of Atom and have a lot invested in its success. That being said, I switched back to Sublime because of the responsiveness, and here's why: Programming (for me) is a craft. When I'm in the flow of coding, there's a conversation between me and my program, mediated through the editor (and my REPL). Even a subtle typing lag is enough to subtly disrupt that flow state – the speed of thought and text no…

I've had the same feeling about the startup speed issue, but with javascript / typescript, I've found that Visual Studio Code occupies the middle in startup performance, and I've found the "intellisense" information to take a load off the mental difficulty of work and memory. So now I use Sublime to make quick edits, but for anything longer, I use Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code is built on electron and both are javascript running in chromium and I still don't understand the difference in performance between VSC and Atom.

Here is a conversation about VSC better performance. It was an interesting read https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10188

I have tried both and both are slow and sticking with Vim and RStudeo.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #100
post #87

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No! You must be lying! I just opened a file and experienced none of that. Therefore it is patently impossible for you to be experiencing what you say you are! /s Didn't we get enough of this BS in the era where people were "victim-blaming" over BSODs in Windows because "I've never had a BSOD and I've been running Windows for years?"

Did you mean to reply to hacker_9 ?

I was mocking @hacker_9's continued disbelief of everything that people were saying about Atom's poor performance by replying to a comment about Atom's poor performance.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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post #54

I love the concept of Atom and have a lot invested in its success. That being said, I switched back to Sublime because of the responsiveness, and here's why: Programming (for me) is a craft. When I'm in the flow of coding, there's a conversation between me and my program, mediated through the editor (and my REPL). Even a subtle typing lag is enough to subtly disrupt that flow state – the speed of thought and text no…

Same here. I liked Atom at first, but the user experience is annoying in the long run. Atom is slow and buggy, what is absolutely not tolerable for a text editor.

Re: Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

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If you like it when editors are fast and lightweight, have a quick startup time, are able to load really big files (e.g. database dumps) without any problems and generally do not distract you with random annoying things while you are working on code, then you will be happy that development on geany is going on - there was a new release [0] this month!

Yes, of course there are several [1] packages, e.g. for Ubuntu [2] - so you do not have to waste your time checking for a new version, downloading it via your browser and installing it manually, like it was done in the last century.

I am not affiliated with geany developers in any way, I am just not a follower of the new-old church of bloatism.

[0] http://www.geany.org/Main/20160313 [1] http://www.geany.org/Download/ThirdPartyPackages [2] https://launchpad.net/~geany-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

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