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Web and desktop developers: Is Atom an example of a new standard of cross platform development practices? Or is it an example of trying to use too many fashiona

• michaelmcmillan 11y ago
  In this particular case I don't think those two are mutually exclusive.
• tvanantwerp 11y ago
  As a Windows user (I work at a think tank, not a startup--no choice in the matter), Atom is still very buggy. I don't know what the Mac experience is like, but the few folks I've asked haven't reported any of the kinds of issues I have. These Windows-only bugs usually don't get ironed out in a timely fashion, and I suspect the reason is that very few Atom developers use Windows. Can't really have cross-platform development when the majority of your developers all choose one platform over another.
• relaxatorium 11y ago
  I've been using it recently and as a user it feels like a negative synthesis as much as a positive one. Its memory footprint bloats with tabs much like a web-browser does and now my machine just lives in swap in a way that it doesn't with more traditional text editors.
  • ashark 11y ago
    This web-on-the-desktop thing is this generation's Java desktop applications/applets. Same back-and-forth. Proponents: Almost as fast as native! Look at this V8 benchmark! Cross-platform for free! Why would you use anything else? Skeptics: Yeah, but... insanely bad memory use, large package size, painful battery drain, and whatever your benchmarks say, noticeably worse real-world performance. Proponents: But... cross platform for free! V8 benchmarks!
• aikah 11y ago
  Atom sucks but I found Visual Studio Code extremely stable and ok when it comes to performances, even on my low end computer.