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I have been ignoring the Atom hype because "geeze a programmers editor written as a big blob of JavaScript on my desktop that sounds like a dumb idea". Then I

by rodgerd 11y ago

I have been ignoring the Atom hype because "geeze a programmers editor written as a big blob of JavaScript on my desktop that sounds like a dumb idea". Then I tried it and it's wonderful and magical.

vbit 11y ago
Could you highlight some of the reasons you liked it?
- timberburn 11y ago
  My most appreciated feature is having a user interface for plugin settings.
  - bronson 11y ago
    My favorite is noticing something weird, opening the inspector, and figuring out the issue quick. Console expressions, breakpoints, etc... it's a powerful environment. (Of my other 2 editors, Vim is fairly difficult to figure out and Sublime is a black box) Being able to style whatever you want with css is handy too, though sometimes it's tough to figure out the right css selector to use.
- rodgerd 11y ago
  * Cross-platform with a pleasing (to me) GUI. Specifically, I appreciate the ability to have multiple views including rendered previews of particular files. * "Feels right". The ergonomics of the keyboard interaction Just Work for me. * Excellent git integration (with plugins) which is frankly abnormal on editors that run on Windows as well as ix (or Windows at all - the git story on Windows is still pretty crappy). Good plugin management and libraries of plugins.
  - hacker_9 11y ago
    Visual Studio has Git support built in...
    - my_coworker 11y ago
      Man, what a surprisingly useful comment. You have really changed how I feel about this subject 100%.
    - rodgerd 11y ago
      > Cross-platform
grinich 11y ago
We actually forked Atom and built an email app. It's worked surprisingly well!
- seanp2k2 11y ago
  I'm not sure if you're serious or not. If you are serious, I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in why and how it turned out :)
  - ropiku 11y ago
    He's serious, it's https://nylas.com/n1 https://nylas.com/n1. See https://www.nylas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom https://www.nylas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom (i'm not associated with them)
    - baby 11y ago
      I just... I just love it. Can't seem to select all my mail to archive though. I have a bunch of unread mail and I would want to batch read them all.
      - grinich 11y ago
        Known bug unfortunately. It's related to how we paginate DB queries for the threadlist to make it super fast to scroll through. Hoping to fix it in the next few weeks!
        baby 11y ago
        For what is worth, I had the same problem with Mail.app on OSX today. Impossible to see what my unread mails were (3 unread mails lost in my 6k mails) and impossible to select all with C-A and mark everything as read. Also another thing I'm used to in that kind of app, is scroll further than the top limit to update the list.
        11y ago
draw_down 11y ago
I don't have a problem with the JavaScript, in fact I think Electron (the app shell extracted from Atom) is quite a nice way to make apps. But Atom is just too slow to use all day for me.
mikerichards 11y ago
Yep...when I first heard about Atom I felt the exact same way you did...."a chromium (web) based desktop app written in CoffeeScript/Javascript...what a freaking mess". Then I tried it and was pretty much blown away on how nice it really is.

by rodgerd 11y ago

I have been ignoring the Atom hype because "geeze a programmers editor written as a big blob of JavaScript on my desktop that sounds like a dumb idea". Then I tried it and it's wonderful and magical.

vbit 11y ago

Could you highlight some of the reasons you liked it?

timberburn 11y ago
My most appreciated feature is having a user interface for plugin settings.
- bronson 11y ago
  My favorite is noticing something weird, opening the inspector, and figuring out the issue quick. Console expressions, breakpoints, etc... it's a powerful environment. (Of my other 2 editors, Vim is fairly difficult to figure out and Sublime is a black box) Being able to style whatever you want with css is handy too, though sometimes it's tough to figure out the right css selector to use.
rodgerd 11y ago
* Cross-platform with a pleasing (to me) GUI. Specifically, I appreciate the ability to have multiple views including rendered previews of particular files. * "Feels right". The ergonomics of the keyboard interaction Just Work for me. * Excellent git integration (with plugins) which is frankly abnormal on editors that run on Windows as well as ix (or Windows at all - the git story on Windows is still pretty crappy). Good plugin management and libraries of plugins.
- hacker_9 11y ago
  Visual Studio has Git support built in...
  - my_coworker 11y ago
    Man, what a surprisingly useful comment. You have really changed how I feel about this subject 100%.
  - rodgerd 11y ago
    > Cross-platform

grinich 11y ago

We actually forked Atom and built an email app. It's worked surprisingly well!

seanp2k2 11y ago
I'm not sure if you're serious or not. If you are serious, I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in why and how it turned out :)
- ropiku 11y ago
  He's serious, it's https://nylas.com/n1 https://nylas.com/n1. See https://www.nylas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom https://www.nylas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom (i'm not associated with them)
  - baby 11y ago
    I just... I just love it. Can't seem to select all my mail to archive though. I have a bunch of unread mail and I would want to batch read them all.
    - grinich 11y ago
      Known bug unfortunately. It's related to how we paginate DB queries for the threadlist to make it super fast to scroll through. Hoping to fix it in the next few weeks!
      - baby 11y ago
        For what is worth, I had the same problem with Mail.app on OSX today. Impossible to see what my unread mails were (3 unread mails lost in my 6k mails) and impossible to select all with C-A and mark everything as read. Also another thing I'm used to in that kind of app, is scroll further than the top limit to update the list.
        11y ago

draw_down 11y ago

I don't have a problem with the JavaScript, in fact I think Electron (the app shell extracted from Atom) is quite a nice way to make apps. But Atom is just too slow to use all day for me.

mikerichards 11y ago

Yep...when I first heard about Atom I felt the exact same way you did...."a chromium (web) based desktop app written in CoffeeScript/Javascript...what a freaking mess". Then I tried it and was pretty much blown away on how nice it really is.