Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users • Hacker News Board

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by sz4kerto » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:04 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #30

The 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…

> I honestly think that Electron is the future of desktop software

I like your software but this statement makes me sad -- it's really not a great situation where a desktop software is written in a language that's not exactly great (to say the least); it runs on the top of countless abstraction layers that make the product comparatively very slow. I have 20 CPU cores and 64G RAM, and Slack starts much slower (!) than MS Word 2016.

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by based_n00b » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

nish1500 wrote: post #6

Just 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.

try loading big json file :)

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by Touche » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

adrianpike wrote: post #43

Touche wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's software to silently track your activity across the web without your knowledge or approval.

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by hccampos » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #33

amykhar wrote: post #29

This 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.

Still not fast enough, especially when you have VSCode that is built with the same technologies and performs way way better. Atom can and should be faster.

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by based_n00b » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #33

amykhar wrote: post #29

This 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.

still crashes on my mac when trying to open big file

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by tombert » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

shmageggy wrote: post #8

tombert wrote: post #2

I'm actually kind of happy about this. While I don't personally use Atom at all, I think it's good that an open source editor is getting extremely popular. Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.

> 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…

I like Atom, but what's kept me with Vim is slight performance hit that you seem to have with Atom.

I'm sure this will get ironed out more, and maybe it has been in later iterations.

Have you managed to get good performance out of it?

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by taylorfausak » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:09 PM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #16

smarx007 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It checks for updates automatically, so I think that gives them the stats, same should be valid for Sublime.

Atom actually uses Google Analytics too: http://i.imgur.com/bXwEDes.png

You can disable the analytics from within Atom by disabling this package: https://atom.io/packages/metrics

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by homero » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:14 PM UTC

It's awesome but I just can't give up my pspad

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by taylorwc » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:25 PM UTC

PhilipA wrote: post #20

What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?

I use and like both. VS Code is definitely faster, but I love the tabs in Atom. As someone who grew up more in a browser than in a terminal, it just feels very natural. There are also more packages available within the Atom ecosystem, or at least, discovering useful packages and searching through them is better.

Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

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Post by tacone » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

pritambaral wrote: post #50

tacone wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, that one.