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Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by baby »

richardknop wrote: post #54
baby wrote: post #28

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I'm using Atom now for Go and never really tried VSCode. What would be the reason to switch?

I find Atom for Go very slow. It feels sluggish, startup time is slow. Sometimes scrolling is lagging, it uses tons of memory (> 1GB to edit 3 text files...). I switched to Sublime from Atom recently after about 2 years and I'm happy.

I usually look a small repos so I haven't had this problem so far. I'll see how it goes as I continue to use it, but the plugins (go-plus) have already made a huge difference so far :o

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by baby »

ggordan wrote: post #37
baby wrote: post #27

This is the 5th time I try Atom (after switching back to sublime) but I might start using this a lot more now that I've discovered go-plus. Atom might really be the best text editor for golang.

I was in the same boat until I tried VScode. It's a really great editor, configurable, and performant enough that I don't miss Sublime. Also the Go support is pretty great. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go

What's the big difference between VScode and Atom? Why would I move to a fork?

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by marpstar »

geluso wrote: post #58
ainar-g wrote: post #4

Please, don't consider this a troll question (I personally am a vim kind of guy), but is there any reason to use Atom over VSCode these days? The sole reason to me seems that VSCode is developed by the "evil" Microsoft. Other than that, most people I know who tried Atom switched to VSCode or (back to) Sublime in the end.

Atom is free. Sublime costs $70. Plus, Atom comes with several lovely features Sublime doesn't have. Pay less, get more? Great deal! It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?" Of course they're not evaluating. They're never going to pay for it. What a nuisance. Atom has excellent window management. It's very easy to drag a tab and split it half…

VS Code has practically all of the features you mentioned from both Atom and Sublime Text 3.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by davidy123 »

Etheryte wrote: post #13
hobofan wrote: post #8

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Atom still has a richer plugin ecosystem.

As someone who switched from Atom to VSCode some time ago, I'm yet to find anything that VSCode doesn't have – are there any notable examples where Atom is ahead of the curve or is it just that it has more plugins?

I switched from Atom to VSCode a while ago, but I still miss a very good git extension (which I can't find now, sorry) which put timeline marks by change size in the bottom of the editor window to allow easily viewing diffs. The best regex railroad viewer extension I found was also much better than in VSCode. As well, VSCode seems to have some bad UI paradigms, for example, using Prettier, syntax fails pile up obnoxiously. I suspect all these differences are because Atom had better UI access for extension developers. I'd switch back to Atom but I found it had a few glitches and VSCode has stronger features such as debugging and code comprehension built in.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by mcrider »

marpstar wrote: post #63
geluso wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atom is free. Sublime costs $70. Plus, Atom comes with several lovely features Sublime doesn't have. Pay less, get more? Great deal! It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?" Of course they're not evaluating. They're never going to pay for it. What a nuisance. Atom has excellent window management. It's very easy to drag a tab and split it half…

VS Code has practically all of the features you mentioned from both Atom and Sublime Text 3.

I'm pretty sure VS Code's window management does not match up. For instance, VS code doesn't allow nested horizontal window panes inside vertical window panes, which is super useful for large displays.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by 8draco8 »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #48
8draco8 wrote: post #40

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Notepad++ have multicursors https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/multi-editing.html and block editing https://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/column-mode-editing.h... . Don't know about Geany.

That's good to know, thx. The last time I checker Notepad++ did not have them and I decided to stay with Sublime.

Last time I've used Notepad++ was around 5 years ago and this feature was there already so it's there for a while. I'm glad that I could help.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by gustavoluz »

baby wrote: post #62
ggordan wrote: post #37

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I was in the same boat until I tried VScode. It's a really great editor, configurable, and performant enough that I don't miss Sublime. Also the Go support is pretty great. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go

What's the big difference between VScode and Atom? Why would I move to a fork?

VScode is not an Atom fork. It's only built on the same tech (Electron)

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by [deleted] »

marpstar wrote: post #63
geluso wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atom is free. Sublime costs $70. Plus, Atom comes with several lovely features Sublime doesn't have. Pay less, get more? Great deal! It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?" Of course they're not evaluating. They're never going to pay for it. What a nuisance. Atom has excellent window management. It's very easy to drag a tab and split it half…

VS Code has practically all of the features you mentioned from both Atom and Sublime Text 3.

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Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by HalfwayToDice »

geluso wrote: post #58
ainar-g wrote: post #4

Please, don't consider this a troll question (I personally am a vim kind of guy), but is there any reason to use Atom over VSCode these days? The sole reason to me seems that VSCode is developed by the "evil" Microsoft. Other than that, most people I know who tried Atom switched to VSCode or (back to) Sublime in the end.

Atom is free. Sublime costs $70. Plus, Atom comes with several lovely features Sublime doesn't have. Pay less, get more? Great deal! It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?" Of course they're not evaluating. They're never going to pay for it. What a nuisance. Atom has excellent window management. It's very easy to drag a tab and split it half…

"It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?"

You sound like a really fun guy to know.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by Etzos »

mcrider wrote: post #65
marpstar wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VS Code has practically all of the features you mentioned from both Atom and Sublime Text 3.

I'm pretty sure VS Code's window management does not match up. For instance, VS code doesn't allow nested horizontal window panes inside vertical window panes, which is super useful for large displays.

I regularly use VS Code, and this is one of the few features that I don't miss much until I need it, and then I really, really wish it had support for it. This is definitely one of the major negatives for VS Code.
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