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Early Thoughts on Atom

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Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by sdegutis »

My real gripe with using web rendering isn't that it doesn't look native (the "native look" changes every year, so who cares if we deviate)... no, it's that it's slow and sluggish and resource-hungry. I honestly don't feel comfortable running Atom on my laptop.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by ollyculverhouse »

sdegutis wrote: post #2

My real gripe with using web rendering isn't that it doesn't look native (the "native look" changes every year, so who cares if we deviate)... no, it's that it's slow and sluggish and resource-hungry. I honestly don't feel comfortable running Atom on my laptop.

Does that mean that you haven't yet tried Atom on your laptop? I haven't however haven't heard complaints about performance...

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by zbruhnke »

RE: Sending info to google.

When I got my invite to Atom it definitely mentioned that during the beta period it was automatically sending feedback and that it was a feature that could be disabled.

So far Atom is not life changing for me but I do find it very useful and extensible, possibly the most interesting part is that I can already use it switching from Sublime Text 3 with almost zero issues because its so similar in feel.

I think its got a great chance to be a wonderful editor and I'm rooting for Atom (and Github) on this one, but there is still a long way to go before giving everyone a compelling reason to switch (especially those coming from vim, etc.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by danielsju6 »

sdegutis wrote: post #2

My real gripe with using web rendering isn't that it doesn't look native (the "native look" changes every year, so who cares if we deviate)... no, it's that it's slow and sluggish and resource-hungry. I honestly don't feel comfortable running Atom on my laptop.

I've not dealt with sluggish performance, while it may be resource hungry (I haven't looked at the resources it consumes, I have 16GB of ram in my laptop so what do I care) I appreciate the performance.

Vim with syntax highlighting and a bunch of plugins has been getting painfully slow for me these days, I've been tempted to play around with the threaded branches. Atom seems quite speedy in comparison.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by lunixbochs »

ollyculverhouse wrote: post #3
sdegutis wrote: post #2

My real gripe with using web rendering isn't that it doesn't look native (the "native look" changes every year, so who cares if we deviate)... no, it's that it's slow and sluggish and resource-hungry. I honestly don't feel comfortable running Atom on my laptop.

Does that mean that you haven't yet tried Atom on your laptop? I haven't however haven't heard complaints about performance...

It's definitely slower than Sublime Text 3, but not by much and it's a pretty high bar.

Re: Early Thoughts on Atom

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Post by rjzzleep »

zbruhnke wrote: post #7

RE: Sending info to google. When I got my invite to Atom it definitely mentioned that during the beta period it was automatically sending feedback and that it was a feature that could be disabled. So far Atom is not life changing for me but I do find it very useful and extensible, possibly the most interesting part is that I can already use it switching from Sublime Text 3 with almost zero issues because its so simil…

every chromium embedded also uses the google dns fyi. having built a chromium embedded app it was puzzling to me that there's no way to disable that(or maybe there is and i haven't found it). i don't know if that's the case here though(since it's blocked in my firewall).

in fact most of the so called privacy aware chromium builds also leak the dns information to google.

This is not deliberate practice, it's usually hidden somewhere in the code, and unless your firewall prompts you you might not even ever notice.

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