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Re: Moving Atom to React

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I would love to switch from Sublime Text to Atom, but the two main things holding me back are the noticeable performance issues (compared to ST), and vim keybindings.

ST's vim support is good enough for me, and when I need more I'll just switch to Vim for those things. But Atom unfortunately is still too limited, although it's good to see progress.

Happy to see the performance issues being worked on, though, and as a big fan of React, I'm happy with their choice.

Re: Moving Atom to React

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I think it just shows that you do computers wrong. Okay sorry that sounds snarky and unproductive- What I mean is, as a model for how human evolved navigation works- a persistant work space with effectively no need to "save" work is more like reality. If you scribble something on a napkin, and leave it on your desk, the desk doesn't demand you name the napkin when you try to leave the house. At the exact moment you n…

> If you scribble something on a napkin, and leave it on your desk, the desk doesn't demand you name the napkin when you try to leave the house Maybe if they did, my desk wouldn't be so untidy right now. The save/discard/cancel dialogs are there for a reason: the computer doesn't know whether you want to save or discard! "Keep everything" is not a solution. Usually I will keep about 50% of the "unattached" files I cr…

so when you're trying to do something else is the time to be making these decisions?
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