I would pick Atom editor, just for the free software philosophy.
Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
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Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#22One of the issue which I feel is the font rendering with these two editors. Text on ST3 looks crisp and beautiful.
For better look see, http://imgur.com/a/yMexQ
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#23Try them both, for at least a week each - and any others you've heard of that seem interesting to you.
Your editor is a very personal choice, and something you'll use a lot, so it's worth putting the time in to try a few before you stick with one.
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#24"Atom 1.0 should greatly improve the performance, so let’s judge it after that."
Oh yes. As fair and balanced as a guide from an Atom fanboy can be. The sort of article that deserves to be linked two or three times.
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#25I would pick Atom editor, just for the free software philosophy.
Why not textmate then? Its been free for a while now https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#26The 2mb file limit is a deal breaker for me frankly. For now, I'm sticking with Sublime.
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#27I wouldn't really consider the site 'atomtips.com' to be an unbiased source on this issue!
All you need to know is that you can easily use both for free and decide if you like both, either, or neither. So basically, pick whatever one (or none of them!) that you prefer after using it for a bit.
Atom has the upside of being open-source, and being easier for people familiar with the web stack to modify. Sublime has the benefit of being much faster. You'll be able to achieve roughly the same with both, and it'll come down to individual use cases and preferences.
(Although I will say that I don't consider the replacement of a lovely JSON-formatted settings file with a GUI to be a benefit at all!)
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#28It depends on OS integration too. On Linux I’ll pick Atom, on OS X I’ll pick Sublime Text, on Windows I’ll probably use something else.
For OSX I would pick Textmate since it integrates better with the OSX ecosystem in terms of behaviour, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#29The editor imho, should not be that big of a choice. The more important thing is, you choose one and you stick with it so that you will master it and enjoy all the advantages there are for that editor.
I strongly doubt that there is much different (perhaps some limitations of the app itself which are described below in other comments), that a person that worked with atom editor for a long time and mastered it vs a sublime text user that mastered the editor will work at a different speed.
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And i stick with sublime :)
Re: Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?
#30Right now, ST. Somewhere in the future, hopefully Atom.
I don't even care about the startup speed, but Atom generally doesn't feel polished compared to ST. Starts with the terrible font rendering on Linux.