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>I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to embed a web browser. Yes - that is true. and, with atom basically being a web browser, it is trivial for them to do i

by mugsie 9y ago

>I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to embed a web browser. Yes - that is true. and, with atom basically being a web browser, it is trivial for them to do it. >I couldn't write a plugin for Sublime to display images inline by fetching their URL if found in the source I actually think that is now possible in ST3. With the new "Phantom" plugin API it can certainly inject a subset of html (including <img/> tags) into the view.

Klathmon 9y ago
>with atom basically being a web browser, it is trivial for them to do it. Which was the point of them making it in a web browser. Leverage that as a platform to make extensions/plugins easier to write and maintain and allow them to do more. Atom is a more capable "IDE" than any other IDE i've ever used, and it's easier to create and manage plugins for. Yeah, there are still some rough edges and things that I hate about it (honestly the whole "hanging for 30+ seconds because you accidentally opened a compiled file" shit really needs to get dealt with somehow, every release they chip a bit off of it, but it is still annoying), but it's by far the editor i'm the most productive with (by quite a large margin).
- mugsie 9y ago
  Now, I haven't worked on web in a while, but what advantages does having an in IDE browser of a random provenance (it trails Chromium by 2-3 weeks) vs using a known version in a separate window beside it? edit: spelling
  - Klathmon 9y ago
    The same benefits that having multiple tabs of code windows is better than multiple separate windows. When i'm debugging/developing/whatevering code that is going to run the same in all supported browsers, doing it in the editor directly allows me to switch tabs back and forth quicker and easier than having them as separate windows. When i'm working on my laptop without any additional screens, being able to keep the view of the page on the same screen at the same time as the code is hugely beneficial. When i'm at home I still tend to use a separate instance of the browser to "preview", but I still drop into the embedded one because the keybinding is so fast and easy to take a quick look then close the tab. Plus being able to open bookmarks to random documentation websites and see the docs in the most up to date format in their "correct" formatting right in the editor is a huge bonus too.
    - maelkum 9y ago
      > When i'm debugging/developing/whatevering code that is going to run the same in all supported browsers, (...). Completely off-topic remark: I always find it funny that Web is hailed as the Write Once, Run Everywhere there is a browser, but then words "supported", or "compatible" start cropping up.
      - Klathmon 9y ago
        Write Once, Run Everywhere != every line is 100% compatible with every platform. Really any more the only things that aren't "cross-platform" are bugs, and very new stuff.
- kuschku 9y ago
  > Atom is a more capable "IDE" than any other IDE i've ever used That says more about you than it does about atom. You should check out the IDEA line of IDEs sometimes.
  - Klathmon 9y ago
    I own a license and use IntelliJ's tools a lot still. Whenever I jump into Java code they are the gold standard! But when I'm working on web code, Atom runs circles around WebStorm.
    - rootlocus 9y ago
      > Atom runs circles around WebStorm. Because it can show you a preview of the page? Because, as far as code indexing is concerned, Atom doesn't do a very good job at all.
      - Klathmon 9y ago
        Well yeah, and all the other things that I like about it. And as for code indexing, Atom doesn't do much of it at all out of the box. Everything is in plugins (by design). So it can use the full abilities of TypeScript or Flow if you add those plugins, or it can just use TernJS, or it can offer simple string-matching autocomplete. It does as good of a job as what you plug into it does, as all it really does at the core is display text, and give a plugin interface.
  - stouset 9y ago
    I can literally hear when my coworkers have IntelliJ open. People are here griping about Atom's memory use, but using 1GB of memory is an order of magnitude better than obliterating my battery by pegging my CPUs. No thanks.
    - Klathmon 9y ago
      To be fair, Atom isn't to friendly to the CPU either, especially when it's loaded to the brim with plugins!

by mugsie 9y ago

Klathmon 9y ago

>with atom basically being a web browser, it is trivial for them to do it. Which was the point of them making it in a web browser. Leverage that as a platform to make extensions/plugins easier to write and maintain and allow them to do more. Atom is a more capable "IDE" than any other IDE i've ever used, and it's easier to create and manage plugins for. Yeah, there are still some rough edges and things that I hate about it (honestly the whole "hanging for 30+ seconds because you accidentally opened a compiled file" shit really needs to get dealt with somehow, every release they chip a bit off of it, but it is still annoying), but it's by far the editor i'm the most productive with (by quite a large margin).

mugsie 9y ago
Now, I haven't worked on web in a while, but what advantages does having an in IDE browser of a random provenance (it trails Chromium by 2-3 weeks) vs using a known version in a separate window beside it? edit: spelling
- Klathmon 9y ago
  The same benefits that having multiple tabs of code windows is better than multiple separate windows. When i'm debugging/developing/whatevering code that is going to run the same in all supported browsers, doing it in the editor directly allows me to switch tabs back and forth quicker and easier than having them as separate windows. When i'm working on my laptop without any additional screens, being able to keep the view of the page on the same screen at the same time as the code is hugely beneficial. When i'm at home I still tend to use a separate instance of the browser to "preview", but I still drop into the embedded one because the keybinding is so fast and easy to take a quick look then close the tab. Plus being able to open bookmarks to random documentation websites and see the docs in the most up to date format in their "correct" formatting right in the editor is a huge bonus too.
  - maelkum 9y ago
    > When i'm debugging/developing/whatevering code that is going to run the same in all supported browsers, (...). Completely off-topic remark: I always find it funny that Web is hailed as the Write Once, Run Everywhere there is a browser, but then words "supported", or "compatible" start cropping up.
    - Klathmon 9y ago
      Write Once, Run Everywhere != every line is 100% compatible with every platform. Really any more the only things that aren't "cross-platform" are bugs, and very new stuff.
kuschku 9y ago
> Atom is a more capable "IDE" than any other IDE i've ever used That says more about you than it does about atom. You should check out the IDEA line of IDEs sometimes.
- Klathmon 9y ago
  I own a license and use IntelliJ's tools a lot still. Whenever I jump into Java code they are the gold standard! But when I'm working on web code, Atom runs circles around WebStorm.
  - rootlocus 9y ago
    > Atom runs circles around WebStorm. Because it can show you a preview of the page? Because, as far as code indexing is concerned, Atom doesn't do a very good job at all.
    - Klathmon 9y ago
      Well yeah, and all the other things that I like about it. And as for code indexing, Atom doesn't do much of it at all out of the box. Everything is in plugins (by design). So it can use the full abilities of TypeScript or Flow if you add those plugins, or it can just use TernJS, or it can offer simple string-matching autocomplete. It does as good of a job as what you plug into it does, as all it really does at the core is display text, and give a plugin interface.
- stouset 9y ago
  I can literally hear when my coworkers have IntelliJ open. People are here griping about Atom's memory use, but using 1GB of memory is an order of magnitude better than obliterating my battery by pegging my CPUs. No thanks.
  - Klathmon 9y ago
    To be fair, Atom isn't to friendly to the CPU either, especially when it's loaded to the brim with plugins!