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Atom v1.0 — The modern & hackable text editor from GitHub
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I'm a vim guy myself and it's going to take a lot to pry vim out of my productivity, but it's exciting to see an open and hackable text editor get so much love and hard work. Keep on keeping on GitHub!
@benogle I haven't, but I'm sure there are keybindings to make me feel at home. I should explain more - half of why I use vim is just so I can stay in the terminal. Everything I do is command line so I've gotten very used to that. Any GUI editor seems out of my workflow right now since I do so many other things on the command line.
Defunkt started this back in 2008?! But building a multi-billion dollar business got in the way?! How many great ideas can the founders of Github have? Their productivity puts them in the same class as The Musk.
More on topic... with the rapid pace of Atom's development I could see it eating Sublime and Textmate's lunch really, really soon. I'm nearly a convert.
Even at 1.0, Atom feels sluggish compares to Sublime Text 3. The plugin ecosystem and community around Atom seems way better than Sublime Text, but as of now it's still failing to do it's main duty for me: editing text quickly.
@daniel_schwartz yeah performance continues to be a big initiative for us. There is a lot more coming up in the next few months.
@jasonbarone @daniel_schwartz same here, sublime speed...its just awesome! I do not see myself in another "slow" editor ever...ets see when sublime3 stable is launched....
@benogle hey ben, still waiting for performance improvements, how is that going? switched editor because of this, but I wanna come back
Went through a first run and I am at least sold more on autocomplete and UI. One thing people forget is that if you need to look at code all day, you need to make it look pretty. So far this seems like a viable replacement for Sublime Text 3.
I absolutely love Atom. Free, lightweight, and easy to use. Can't wait to see what's coming.
Trying it now. Good work! Hopefully the cursor performance update makes it more usable. http://blog.atom.io/2015/06/16/o...
Great at first look, a big improvement on the beta versions. Getting occasional downtime on package installs, e.g.
Niiice! Converted. You should link this hunt over to their main site, not the blogpost.. That way it's easier to get user to download it right away.
Really good. I've been using it as my primary text editor for many months already; been enjoying seeing the development process.
I love Atom, and use it daily (and have been since mid 2014). I have absolutely no complaints. Love it!
Atom feels as heavy as an IDE. It has a lot of plug-ins but I find that many feel broken. Looking at Activity Monitor on Mac, you can see it uses a lot of battery, and this is a dealbreaker for me. Unfortunately it's the only "IDE" for Julia (which, ironically, is a high-performance language) so I stick with it for these tasks.
Awesome effort/work by the community though. It's too bad I don't agree with the choices the community had to make because I personally think this could have become a true "Emacs for the 21st century" text editor.
Pros:Open source, Free, "Hackable"
Cons:Battery hogger, slow
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