The most important thing about Atom is probably the community around it. TextMate is also opensource yet I haven't seen many plugins built for it.
Plugins and users are big part of what make Atom great.
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#72Genuine, non-trolly question: why would I use Atom over Sublime Text? I've used both and by and large they were very effective replacements for each other, but Atom had performance issues with large files so I went back to Sublime. What am I missing out on?
Atom isn't abandoned.
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#73For you Atom users: Why have you chosen Atom over, say, Emacs?
The handling for modern Javascript development tools is superior than any other editor I've used, Vim and Emacs included unfortunately. I use Vim for everything, except JS development. For that I use Atom.
Have you used VS:Code? If so, what do you prefer about Atom for JS development?
I find the JS intellisense, while heavily dependent on what kind of code you write, leaves every other editor standing.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's alright for small files, but whenever I paste in a huge csv or json file it hangs for minutes. And I use pretty recent macbook pro with high specs. This doesn't happen with other editors.
I've found that when pasting in huge files, disabling syntax highlighting makes a big difference. In fact, if you simply open a sufficiently large (I haven't bothered bisecting the size, but a few megs works) xml file, Atom will disable syntax highlighting by default and the performance will be slow but still usable. If you paste in the contents of a large xml file, syntax highlighting is not disabled and the editor…
Reminds me of old emacs' tricks.
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#75Am I the only one who has no performance issues with Atom, except on insanely big files? I don't like my files to be 1000+ lines anyways (where possible) because it severely impacts readability/skimability.
ST3 might win me back when Package Control is integrated, but until then, Atom is more than fine. IntelliSense on VS Code looks really powerful, but it's personally a feature I do not enjoy.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm making a bit of a habit of chipping in on Atom performance complaints with a counterpoint. I've now used Atom as my primary editor for more than a year, and I have no complaints about the performance. This could be because I'm using OSX on recent hardware - I've noticed that my friends using Linux desktops seem to have more issues than I do.
It's alright for small files, but whenever I paste in a huge csv or json file it hangs for minutes. And I use pretty recent macbook pro with high specs. This doesn't happen with other editors.
Same here, I only get issues after around 100MB.
Most editors start to struggle at such file sizes, which is a shame, but try loading 100mb into Excel. The only editor I found to work nearly instantly is vi; nano takes almost a minute to load large files.
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Unless you tell someone your OS and hardware, it's really not helpful for people to decide, or even address the problems. Does Atom use a lot of ram or cpu? I've got a 2 year old Mac Book Pro with 16 GB RAM and an SSD. I downloaded Atom 1.6 after the announcement and leave it open to maintain my notes and I haven't noticed any performance problems with a couple dozen files. I might try to use it for another project o…
You shouldn't need a $2000 laptop to run a text editor.
But you will most likely have it anyway.
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#78For you Atom users: Why have you chosen Atom over, say, Emacs?
Not sure if you're trolling, because that's a pretty ridiculous question. The obvious answer is Atom's immediate usability and the much easier learning curve over Emacs which requires an incredible amount of research and effort to set up properly and use. For example how long do you think it takes for the average new programmer choosing Atom to figure out and learn to use the fuzzy file search versus them getting tha…
Alright, so say they use Spacemacs (Which really should be the Emacs default). Now how would they justify their choice?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you tell someone your OS and hardware, it's really not helpful for people to decide, or even address the problems. Does Atom use a lot of ram or cpu? I've got a 2 year old Mac Book Pro with 16 GB RAM and an SSD. I downloaded Atom 1.6 after the announcement and leave it open to maintain my notes and I haven't noticed any performance problems with a couple dozen files. I might try to use it for another project o…
You shouldn't need a $2000 laptop to run a text editor.
No one said you did. I simply stated what I owned and explained how I use it, and how it performed.
I imagine the same performance as my 2 year old laptop is equivalent to $500-$800 desktop today.