Introducing Block Decorations
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Introducing Block Decorations
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Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#2I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#3I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
I've recently started using more, but I still have to turn to sublime fairly often due to speed (dealing with larger projects, bigger data files, more complex regex searching).
That being said, the performance has been getting steadily better, enough to the point I can do most of my coding in it without noticing a problem. I'd suggest giving it another go and see how it does for you! It's quite a joy to hack on.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#4I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
I tried installing it recently and adding on the facebook react extention, and whilst installing it completely broke.
Restarting made it end up in the same install cycle as before.
Atom fixes what is broken in Sublime, but has it's own issues that are currently far worse.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#5I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
It actually has. Atom became unusable for me, but the most recent version fixed a bug involving the .git file. It's not sublime fast, but it's enough that I enjoy using it now.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#6I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
I've recently started using more, but I still have to turn to sublime fairly often due to speed (dealing with larger projects, bigger data files, more complex regex searching). That being said, the performance has been getting steadily better, enough to the point I can do most of my coding in it without noticing a problem. I'd suggest giving it another go and see how it does for you! It's quite a joy to hack on.
Can you give an example of 'more complex regex searching'? I thought the JS regex engine would be at par with whatever sublime uses.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#7I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
I use it regularly for editing the front-end portion of our project. Granted it's not the biggest project (36 folders and 158 total files.) but it performs quite well. I have some problems using git from the command line as atom seems to lock random files from time to time. I really have no complaints. I enjoy using it and find the community packages that are available quite useful.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#8I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
I've been using Atom full-time for about a year, after switching from Sublime. I'm happy with it as an editor, and like the momentum behind the plugins ecosystem. Performance has been completely adequate, and I've seen none of the issues that always seem to crop up whenever Atom is mentioned on HN. There may be a platform difference - I use it on OSX, but friends of mine on Linux have been less satisfied.
I do still resort to vim on the command-line for some things, but as a "daily driver" code editor, Atom has been excellent.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#9I find Atom very interesting, but the performance always drives me away from using it. Have recent versions improved? Anyone using it full time?
It's still kind of bad. Just try opening up a minified JS (or any kind of large file) file and watch your Atom become unresponsive for 5 minutes.
Re: Introducing Block Decorations
#10I've been wanting this feature ever since I watched a video of TempleOS, which featured images in source code (everything is in "DolDoc" format: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...). I'd love to be able to drop in diagrams, screen shots, and scribbles into the source code of my personal projects!