Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
So does Sublime Text if you have auto-updates enabled.
Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
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#22Is it me, or are there horrible stability issues on Windows 10? I cannot have more than one editor open without one of them crashing. This is an issue on 3 of my W10 machines.
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#23Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
It was the new normal like 15 years ago. Almost every major application phones home to deliver bug reports, telemetry, check for updates, etc. Read the terms and conditions of apps when you install them next time.
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#24Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text. I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.
How is Atom for non-web languages such as C?
C? It has syntax highlighting, but it's very obviously geared towards web development.
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#25Atom is very nice. The Emacs of 2016.
Except for the whole "run anywhere with a terminal", "high quality packages with decades of bugfixes" and "pretty much extensible in every way".
(I'm a Vim user myself, but I feel like comparing Atom to Emacs is a big... optimistic. People keep complaining about how slow Atom is, how much memory it hogs up, etc. I think it needs at least a few more years of maturation before being able to call it "the Emacs of X")
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#26Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text. I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.
How is Atom for non-web languages such as C?
Its fine. I'm using it for: Go, Perl, NodeJS, Scheme, Bash, C++, and Rust.
You might have to add some of the syntax highlighting etc, but there are packages for most languages available directly in the built in package manager.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it. Same here, and when I recently ran into some built in limitations with gvim regarding its inability to easily deal with proportional width fonts, I switched to Atom. I've been really happy so far -- the vim mode plugin is nice. Atom isn't perfect, but it's good enough for now, and the extensibility model makes me confident t…
Why would you want proportional width fonts in Vim? Forgive me for asking, it's probably pretty obvious to you.
Write 'normal' text for example, also if you're including CJK-strings in your app it is kind of nice if they are not rendered as teensy or on top of each other.
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#28Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text. I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.
How is Atom for non-web languages such as C?
Well, I'm no professional yet but I'm finding it pretty good coding in C while using the proper lintian together with clang, I also use the package script, which allows me to run the code from within the editor. If you give enough tweak, I believe it can be a pretty usefull IDE. Didn't try any gdb integration yet.
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#29This is the first time I've opened a discussion about Atom where all the top posts weren't about how horrible and slow it is. Has it gotten better, or have people who know better just given up on this editor?
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#30The most fantastic thing about Atom to me has been the underlying technology-- specifically Electron, which is a novel combination of Chromium and NodeJS.
We at Nylas built an email app that originally was a fork of Atom, and now runs on Electron (which is evolving way faster). http://github.com/nylas/n1
I honestly think that Electron is the future of desktop software, and it all started with Atom. Hats off to those folks for continuing to invest in this project!
(also, zcbenz is a complete badass who doesn't get enough credit)