Can you imagine, Notepad celebrating 1 billion monthly users?
A program bundled with every copy of Windows, ever? Yes, that would be silly.
Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
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#32What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
I recently switched from Atom to VS Code. Everything in VS Code just seems to work, and I don't have any of the high CPU usage issues I had with Atom.
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#33This 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?
It has gotten WAY faster.
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#34What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
When you have a faster computer?
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#35What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
Atom currently has more plugins, larger community, etc.
Ironically, both are built on ElectronJS: http://electron.atom.io/
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#36Is 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.
It is definitely not you, having issues as well, that's what has been keeping me from jumping the ship from Sublime Text.
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#37Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
Yes it is. Visual Studio for Linux also does the same thing and, unlike Atom, there's no opt-out.
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#38The only thing that keeps me from using Atom, and I admit that this might seem trivial, is how much I hate the delay before the syntax highlighting loads. Somehow it's an immersion-breaker for me, and a deal breaker. Anyone know if this issue is being worked on?
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#39Congrats! Atom may not be perfect (no editor is), but it's constantly and consistently improving, which is a lot more than one can say about most other editors.
For those who use Jupyter: there's a package called Hydrogen that let's you run your code directly within Atom using Jupyter kernels (not just python!). To me, that's the perfect example of the power of a hackable editor.
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#40Atom 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")
>People keep complaining about how slow Atom is, how much memory it hogs up, etc
Which is exactly what people have been saying decades ago about Emacs, aka "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".