What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
Ecosystem, but not much more. Code is faster and has very good intellisense for JS. Though it's still in Beta it's been very stable and a pleasure to use.
Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
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#42This 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?
I'm a confirmed Emacs user since the early 1990s. But when I saw Atom in use on a Youtube tutorial video, I decided to try it. Always interested in finding out what "the young'uns" are using.
It's a pretty nice editor, actually. I like the tabs approach; I like the restore at startup. Colorized text works well and detects file types correctly even without filename extension.
I notice there's an atom-macros module. Nice. For me, nothing replaces Emacs... yet... but one of these new kids might sooner or later fit the bill.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that creeps you out, you should probably run a completely closed firewall, where you specifically enable applications' access to the network. I don't know if it is new normal, or old normal, or even normal, but many applications have been doing it for a long time now.
In this case they are using Google Analytics, which I consider to be malware, so for me I couldn't use the editor.
Serious question, what makes you consider GA malware?
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#45The fact that this is still a problem blows my mind.
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#46Atom 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")
You're right on run anywhere with a terminal and high quality packages. However, Atom is truly extensible in any way you want because it's actually made up of lots of packages that you can replace and fork.
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#47The 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…
[ot] N1 is great, too bad I can't recommend to pretty much anybody because there's no translation support.
The bug is open since October 2015, has 50+ comments and no feedback from devs. https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/24
IIRC Atom doesn't have translation support either, I wonder if it has something to do with Electron.
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#48I just now tweaked my vimrc to be a bit nicer on remote ssh servers. Atom seems to be getting cooler every day, but I just can't see myself parting from Vim. Not yet anyway.
Another thought just stroke me as well: everywhere I look I see Atom, it seems like almost everyone has adopted it. If that everyone is just 1M, our world is very small indeed.
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#49What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
Ecosystem, but not much more. Code is faster and has very good intellisense for JS. Though it's still in Beta it's been very stable and a pleasure to use.
Indeed, the VSCode intellisense for JS is amazing, especially after the latest February release.
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#50Is 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.
You mean Visual Studio Code, which is nothing like Visual Studio, except in name and their creator.