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Spotify and atom and slack feel like native apps to me.

by krisdol 10y ago

markdog12 10y ago
Atom and Slack don't "feel" normal to me, they feel sluggish. They also take up a lot of resources (CPU, RAM). With what I'm running on a daily basis, I need all the resources I can get. I think lpsz said it best, "It's cool for developers. It's not cool for the users". I'd qualify that with "It's cool for web developers".
- krisdol 10y ago
  Atom hovers at less than 5% usage between at least 5 separate workers for me. It's no 'ed' in terms of RAM but if it's under a gig it's fine by me. Certainly better than IntelliJ was in that respect. Works pretty perfectly with rust as well. I have both a vim and an atom rust setup and they have near total feature parity.
intoverflow2 10y ago
A chat app having to show a loading bar when switching between conversations is in no sense of the phrase "like native". Neither is a text editor that can't show letters as fast as a person types.
- patrickbolle 10y ago
  You are talking about Atom ? I've never had that problem, weird
  - Santosh83 10y ago
    I've experienced this with Atom. Seems to happen when the syntax highlighting code spikes the CPU usage as it attempts to highlight what you've typed and as a result the app waits for the highlighting code and your most recent keystrokes show up with a noticeable delay.
    - oceanswave 10y ago
      I get this in Visual Studio and occasionally in WebStorm too. C++ and Intellij-based Java apps. Not the only one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617670/why-vs-2013-is-very-slow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617670/why-vs-2013-is-v... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20545435/why-is-the-new-version-of-intellij-idea-so-slow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20545435/why-is-the-new-v...
    - krisdol 10y ago
      I had this with the ternjs plugin. Out of the box atom is pretty snappy on OS X. I haven't used Windows in a decade but I often see comparisons to Visual Studio accompanying complaints about Atom so my best guess is that it's either due to environment or a heavy plugin.

Spotify and atom and slack feel like native apps to me.

by krisdol 10y ago

Spotify and atom and slack feel like native apps to me.

Atom and Slack don't "feel" normal to me, they feel sluggish. They also take up a lot of resources (CPU, RAM). With what I'm running on a daily basis, I need all the resources I can get. I think lpsz said it best, "It's cool for developers. It's not cool for the users". I'd qualify that with "It's cool for web developers".

krisdol 10y ago
Atom hovers at less than 5% usage between at least 5 separate workers for me. It's no 'ed' in terms of RAM but if it's under a gig it's fine by me. Certainly better than IntelliJ was in that respect. Works pretty perfectly with rust as well. I have both a vim and an atom rust setup and they have near total feature parity.

intoverflow2 10y ago

A chat app having to show a loading bar when switching between conversations is in no sense of the phrase "like native". Neither is a text editor that can't show letters as fast as a person types.

patrickbolle 10y ago
You are talking about Atom ? I've never had that problem, weird
- Santosh83 10y ago
  I've experienced this with Atom. Seems to happen when the syntax highlighting code spikes the CPU usage as it attempts to highlight what you've typed and as a result the app waits for the highlighting code and your most recent keystrokes show up with a noticeable delay.
  - oceanswave 10y ago
    I get this in Visual Studio and occasionally in WebStorm too. C++ and Intellij-based Java apps. Not the only one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617670/why-vs-2013-is-very-slow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617670/why-vs-2013-is-v... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20545435/why-is-the-new-version-of-intellij-idea-so-slow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20545435/why-is-the-new-v...
  - krisdol 10y ago
    I had this with the ternjs plugin. Out of the box atom is pretty snappy on OS X. I haven't used Windows in a decade but I often see comparisons to Visual Studio accompanying complaints about Atom so my best guess is that it's either due to environment or a heavy plugin.