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Atom: Hello Windows

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Re: Atom: Hello Windows

#32
post #16

Is there a way to speed up boot time? It takes a bit less than 4 seconds on i7 to load up text file, which is way too long for a text editor.

Looks like it is profiling it's own startup: Packages->timecop->show

Doesn't show useful info. Window load time is 1809ms, workspace load time 94ms, everything else is under 20ms. I hate being nitpicker, but thats a lot of time to load window.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

#33
post #11
post #4

Jesus, I've never realized how similar it was to Sublime Text.

In use, it is very different from Sublime Text. Especially the plugin system is far more powerful. I still prefer Sublime though, Atom is still too immature, and some packages I need don't exist yet or are far too unstable. That, and Atom is just far, faaaar too slow at the moment.

care to list a package that you need to that isnt in atom yet? (i would love to take a crack at building it)

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

#34
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In use, it is very different from Sublime Text. Especially the plugin system is far more powerful. I still prefer Sublime though, Atom is still too immature, and some packages I need don't exist yet or are far too unstable. That, and Atom is just far, faaaar too slow at the moment.

care to list a package that you need to that isnt in atom yet? (i would love to take a crack at building it)

Most importantly I miss SFTP. There's already a github project for sftp, but at the moment it's almost unusable. https://github.com/jules-r/atom-sftp

I also really miss bracket highlighter, it's a super small tool, but very useful. You could tackle the bracket highlighter plugin, it might even be possible with pure less/css depending on if Atom already has this built-in.

And I miss being able to run a Python REPL in Atom. Python and JS are my main programming languages.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

#35
post #4

Jesus, I've never realized how similar it was to Sublime Text.

I said something similar on seeing Sublime after using TextMate for 5 years.

I will switch when Atom gets more stable (I still encounter bugs everywhere), and more performant.

I have already developed a plugin for Atom, I hate the living shit out of Coffeescript, but I like Atom's API. It's a shame that the spacepen API was built in such a way that it's unbearable to write plugins with it in pure js.

Re: Atom: Hello Windows

#36
post #16

Is there a way to speed up boot time? It takes a bit less than 4 seconds on i7 to load up text file, which is way too long for a text editor.

Not yet, they promised to work on performance after proper Windows support though.
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