Atom 1.18 released

#1

Post by aditya42 » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 3:57 AM UTC

Atom 1.18 released
blog.atom.io

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by kalendos » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 9:48 AM UTC

Also, Atom 1.19 Beta has native text buffer. This should reduce memory usage for large files. Will try it out!

Re: Atom 1.18 released

#3

Post by nickrio » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:01 AM UTC

I don't know. Since it's basically build upon ECMAScript, HTML and Webkit already, why not also wasm?

Re: Atom 1.18 released

#4

Post by ainar-g » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:16 AM UTC

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.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by parmesan » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:29 AM UTC

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.

I switched back to Sublime after a while, Atom was so slow to start, at least when I first tried it out in ~2014 (2015?). Sublime loads in like 100ms on all my machines.

I'm also the vim kind tho, but when I browse large datasets and dumps I use Sublime.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by romanovcode » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:33 AM UTC

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.

> any reason to use Atom over VSCode these days?

Probably no reason. Is anyone even using Atom anymore?

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by pietz » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:34 AM UTC

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.

i second your view. i like working with VSCode and only grab Sublime when I've to wrangle text files that are larger than 10MB.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by hobofan » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:37 AM UTC

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 still has a richer plugin ecosystem.

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by rihegher » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:39 AM UTC

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.

What prevent me of using atom is this issue: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2456

Re: Atom 1.18 released

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Post by zelos » Fri, Jun 16, 2017, 10:41 AM UTC

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.

I've switched over to something more lightweight - XCode.