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vim is 2.7 MB. How big is Atom? Edit: Jesus guys, enough with the white knighting for Atom. I think you should use whatever editor you want, I'm just counteri

vim is 2.7 MB. How big is Atom? Edit: Jesus guys, enough with the white knighting for Atom. I think you should use whatever editor you want, I'm just countering the point that it's not bloated because it's modular.

netghost 11y ago
Frickin' enormous, but at the end of the day if someone is productive in vim, use vim. If they're productive with Atom, use Atom. You can spend your life proving that your editor is the truth, or you can get on with it and build something awesome.
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
  I don't think anyone is against the idea that you should use what you're comfortable with. I'm just backing up the idea that Atom is bloated, and even with all of the modules removed it's still going to be huge.
  - dangtard 11y ago
    The love for atom is strong on HN. It's like there is a blindness to rationality. It's not so much hive mind, and jive mind!
Klathmon 11y ago
I have a machine with 6 1TB HDDs and a 512GB SSD, why do I care? As long as it's not so big it becomes inconvenient to download it (IMO in the 10+GB range) I simply don't care about it's size, it doesn't effect me at all. Use what you want to use, this field has too many holy wars already.
CyberDildonics 11y ago
If program size effected programming productivity no one would use visual studio.
- gravypod 11y ago
  Many people don't explicitly for this reason. I know I can't, its just too much stuff stuck together. I'd expect something like VS and Atom to be made well polished and optimized. The projects are rather large and both have well staffed teams behind them. I'll take sublime, eclipse, or even JetBrains products over VS/Atom because those editors/IDEs are polished and simple to use. I don't need to RTFM just to add three lines to a text file.
  - DatBear 11y ago
    Right click -> Add -> Text file, then type the 3 lines. Definitely needed to RTFM for that!
    - gravypod 11y ago
      Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
  - CyberDildonics 11y ago
    You do realize I all I was implying was that visual studio is very large and that people use it?
outworlder 11y ago
Gigantic, in comparison. But does it really matter? We are not developing using potatoes. Even a 5 year old computer bought at a department store should have no issues running Atom. The more useful metric would be, what's the actual performance like? I couldn't care less if it used gigabytes of otherwise unclaimed memory for caching. Unused memory is wasted memory. Atom has more potential, as it embeds a full web browser. That potential is mostly untapped right now, but it is there.

netghost 11y ago

Frickin' enormous, but at the end of the day if someone is productive in vim, use vim. If they're productive with Atom, use Atom. You can spend your life proving that your editor is the truth, or you can get on with it and build something awesome.

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
I don't think anyone is against the idea that you should use what you're comfortable with. I'm just backing up the idea that Atom is bloated, and even with all of the modules removed it's still going to be huge.
- dangtard 11y ago
  The love for atom is strong on HN. It's like there is a blindness to rationality. It's not so much hive mind, and jive mind!

Klathmon 11y ago

I have a machine with 6 1TB HDDs and a 512GB SSD, why do I care? As long as it's not so big it becomes inconvenient to download it (IMO in the 10+GB range) I simply don't care about it's size, it doesn't effect me at all. Use what you want to use, this field has too many holy wars already.

CyberDildonics 11y ago

If program size effected programming productivity no one would use visual studio.

gravypod 11y ago
Many people don't explicitly for this reason. I know I can't, its just too much stuff stuck together. I'd expect something like VS and Atom to be made well polished and optimized. The projects are rather large and both have well staffed teams behind them. I'll take sublime, eclipse, or even JetBrains products over VS/Atom because those editors/IDEs are polished and simple to use. I don't need to RTFM just to add three lines to a text file.
- DatBear 11y ago
  Right click -> Add -> Text file, then type the 3 lines. Definitely needed to RTFM for that!
  - gravypod 11y ago
    Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- CyberDildonics 11y ago
  You do realize I all I was implying was that visual studio is very large and that people use it?

outworlder 11y ago

Gigantic, in comparison. But does it really matter? We are not developing using potatoes. Even a 5 year old computer bought at a department store should have no issues running Atom. The more useful metric would be, what's the actual performance like? I couldn't care less if it used gigabytes of otherwise unclaimed memory for caching. Unused memory is wasted memory. Atom has more potential, as it embeds a full web browser. That potential is mostly untapped right now, but it is there.