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If you're thinking on taking the plunge from Sublime Text, here are some setup notes aimed at web developers: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-

If you're thinking on taking the plunge from Sublime Text, here are some setup notes aimed at web developers: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-for-rails-development.html http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-fo...

tobr 11y ago
Haven't tried Atom for about one and half years; at that time it was a performance trainwreck. Is it better?
- mparramon 11y ago
  I've been using it as my main editor for a couple years now, and yes, it's getting better with every release.
- jimcsharp 11y ago
  My only frame of reference is visual studio... Atom is darn fast.
  - rplnt 11y ago
    To start maybe?
- biehl 11y ago
  Yes, it is quite a lot better. I just restarted using after two years pause. Now I find that I open half my sessions in Atom, half in sublime.
- desuvader 11y ago
  Atom still sometimes freezes for me (on computer with high-end specs). Opening large text files also makes Atom freeze. The built in spotlight thing is slow for bigger projects (expected). The overall performance has definitely improved though. I personally use Atom for lighter development and enjoy how easily accessible plugins are. Very easy to install support for lint tools/editorconfig/snippets/&tc.
- tomchristie 11y ago
  > Is it better? Absolutely, yes. I found it a little "bouncy" on first pass. It felt like there was an edge-of-perceptible lag when updating the display in response to keypresses. I tried switching to it again recently, and that's completely gone now. I guess it's just a tad on the slow side starting up, but everything else is really great, and I'm definitely sticking with it this time.
- PlzSnow 11y ago
  It's better, but it's still not useable at a professional level. For example, a simple task such as CMD-D to create multiple cursors in a file. Sublime text screams through the file creating the cursors. Atom is like swimming in syrup. I wish Atom well, it's an amazing piece of software. But the developers chose a dev-stack that suited them instead of one that suited the end users of the software. So it will never take over the world as it could have. See also Discourse.
rplnt 11y ago
Note that Atom doesn't seem to preserve session through restart. I'm quite used to use sublime as notepad without actually saving anything. Maybe there's an option for that though.
- mparramon 11y ago
  Looks like they added just that on this release: >Untitled documents in a project are now serialized and restored.
  - rplnt 11y ago
    Well, I tried it with this version and it didn't work. It might be optional (though I haven't found any setting with quick search).
    - shasts 11y ago
      Your editor session need to be associated with a project/workspace. Works well in that case. Restart via atom /path
- lost_my_pwd 11y ago
  That appears to be one of the changes in 1.4.0: https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/9968 https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/9968
- krisdol 11y ago
  Probably. It has been preserving my sessions for a while.
- thegeekpirate 11y ago
  I've simply used https://github.com/mpeterson2/save-session https://github.com/mpeterson2/save-session.
criddell 11y ago
I use Sublime Text 3 90% of the time and GVim the rest. I don't have any complaints about either editor. What are the primary reasons that drive people to Atom (or Visual Studio Code for that matter)? Is there some great feature that I'm missing out on?

tobr 11y ago

Haven't tried Atom for about one and half years; at that time it was a performance trainwreck. Is it better?

mparramon 11y ago
I've been using it as my main editor for a couple years now, and yes, it's getting better with every release.
jimcsharp 11y ago
My only frame of reference is visual studio... Atom is darn fast.
- rplnt 11y ago
  To start maybe?
biehl 11y ago
Yes, it is quite a lot better. I just restarted using after two years pause. Now I find that I open half my sessions in Atom, half in sublime.
desuvader 11y ago
Atom still sometimes freezes for me (on computer with high-end specs). Opening large text files also makes Atom freeze. The built in spotlight thing is slow for bigger projects (expected). The overall performance has definitely improved though. I personally use Atom for lighter development and enjoy how easily accessible plugins are. Very easy to install support for lint tools/editorconfig/snippets/&tc.
tomchristie 11y ago
> Is it better? Absolutely, yes. I found it a little "bouncy" on first pass. It felt like there was an edge-of-perceptible lag when updating the display in response to keypresses. I tried switching to it again recently, and that's completely gone now. I guess it's just a tad on the slow side starting up, but everything else is really great, and I'm definitely sticking with it this time.
PlzSnow 11y ago
It's better, but it's still not useable at a professional level. For example, a simple task such as CMD-D to create multiple cursors in a file. Sublime text screams through the file creating the cursors. Atom is like swimming in syrup. I wish Atom well, it's an amazing piece of software. But the developers chose a dev-stack that suited them instead of one that suited the end users of the software. So it will never take over the world as it could have. See also Discourse.

rplnt 11y ago

Note that Atom doesn't seem to preserve session through restart. I'm quite used to use sublime as notepad without actually saving anything. Maybe there's an option for that though.

mparramon 11y ago
Looks like they added just that on this release: >Untitled documents in a project are now serialized and restored.
- rplnt 11y ago
  Well, I tried it with this version and it didn't work. It might be optional (though I haven't found any setting with quick search).
  - shasts 11y ago
    Your editor session need to be associated with a project/workspace. Works well in that case. Restart via atom /path
lost_my_pwd 11y ago
That appears to be one of the changes in 1.4.0: https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/9968 https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/9968
krisdol 11y ago
Probably. It has been preserving my sessions for a while.
thegeekpirate 11y ago
I've simply used https://github.com/mpeterson2/save-session https://github.com/mpeterson2/save-session.

criddell 11y ago

I use Sublime Text 3 90% of the time and GVim the rest. I don't have any complaints about either editor. What are the primary reasons that drive people to Atom (or Visual Studio Code for that matter)? Is there some great feature that I'm missing out on?