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It's too bad Atom isn't as fast or faster than Sublime Text 3. I just can't go back to Sublime Text now, Atom is good enough.

gcp 10y ago
Visual Studio Code?
BuildTheRobots 10y ago
What does Atom bring to the party that Sublime Text 3 doesn't? All I can of (off the top of my head) is slower and chews more memory but is open source.
- andrewmcwatters 10y ago
  Everyone develops packages for it, and they're much more actively supported than ST3 packages. It's really the ecosystem.
  - gcp 10y ago
    I think that's really a side effect of it being free. (And I wonder if VSCode will eat that ecosystem...) Do you have examples where the Atom/VSCode package is much better maintained than the ST3 one?
  - therealmarv 10y ago
    My experience is that the overall Sublime packages are much more stable and do not need so much rework and maintenance. I cannot even count how many times Atom packages failed (maybe it's also just because I cannot see fancy failing error messages of packages in Sublime).
- SippinLean 10y ago
  The interface for one. OOTB Sublime Text can't install packages, for example. Once you install Package Manager, discovery is terrible; you have to know the name of the package you want beforehand. On Atom/VSCode you can easily browse all packages and install them from the editor itself.
berry_sortoro 10y ago
I went from sublime to brackets to atom and sure giving the under-hood is a "bloated" chromium it may be "slower" but seriously does it really matter? I remember to notice the file witching in sublime text was really snappy and I am not sure it always felt like the files where already cached in ram. In Atom I sometime can feel the rendering but thats it. Nowadays I got used to it and I think Atom is not actually really slow. I mean what speed really need form a editor? You need speed in build process ... it the editor takes 20 milliseconds more for something I could not care less. I switched because ST is closed source and I think its (closed source) days are numbered. Given that great open source editors are on the rise. Also given that Atom and Brackets are written in JS/CSS they are so much better when it comes to plugins and integration of stuff if your a web developer I see no reason to go with SL3. Also given that Atom is from Github where pretty much all the code is I think I know without even looking it up that Atom has the most and best maintained ecosystem of plugins.

gcp 10y ago

Visual Studio Code?

BuildTheRobots 10y ago

What does Atom bring to the party that Sublime Text 3 doesn't? All I can of (off the top of my head) is slower and chews more memory but is open source.

andrewmcwatters 10y ago
Everyone develops packages for it, and they're much more actively supported than ST3 packages. It's really the ecosystem.
- gcp 10y ago
  I think that's really a side effect of it being free. (And I wonder if VSCode will eat that ecosystem...) Do you have examples where the Atom/VSCode package is much better maintained than the ST3 one?
- therealmarv 10y ago
  My experience is that the overall Sublime packages are much more stable and do not need so much rework and maintenance. I cannot even count how many times Atom packages failed (maybe it's also just because I cannot see fancy failing error messages of packages in Sublime).
SippinLean 10y ago
The interface for one. OOTB Sublime Text can't install packages, for example. Once you install Package Manager, discovery is terrible; you have to know the name of the package you want beforehand. On Atom/VSCode you can easily browse all packages and install them from the editor itself.

berry_sortoro 10y ago

I went from sublime to brackets to atom and sure giving the under-hood is a "bloated" chromium it may be "slower" but seriously does it really matter? I remember to notice the file witching in sublime text was really snappy and I am not sure it always felt like the files where already cached in ram. In Atom I sometime can feel the rendering but thats it. Nowadays I got used to it and I think Atom is not actually really slow. I mean what speed really need form a editor? You need speed in build process ... it the editor takes 20 milliseconds more for something I could not care less. I switched because ST is closed source and I think its (closed source) days are numbered. Given that great open source editors are on the rise. Also given that Atom and Brackets are written in JS/CSS they are so much better when it comes to plugins and integration of stuff if your a web developer I see no reason to go with SL3. Also given that Atom is from Github where pretty much all the code is I think I know without even looking it up that Atom has the most and best maintained ecosystem of plugins.