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I use Atom as my daily driver on a 2012-era Mac mini. It works just fine for me, but I do wonder how much life there is left in it, especially since development

I use Atom as my daily driver on a 2012-era Mac mini. It works just fine for me, but I do wonder how much life there is left in it, especially since development changed pace after Microsoft acquired GitHub. Seeing plugins for Atom almost makes me nostalgic, and there’s a bit more life to be squeezed out before the sunset. I’d be curious to hear what other people are using for their IDE on lower end hardware. As I say, Atom works fine and I personally appreciate the open source nature of it, but I’m very open to alternatives.

Firehawke 5y ago
I'd moved to VSCode because even on higher end hardware I could feel a substantial improvement compared to Atom. If you don't like the MS integrations, there's VSCodium.
jermaustin1 5y ago
I actually use code-server which is VSCode in the browser and hosted on your own server. It works on my ancient 2011 Dell latitude running ChromiumOS.
- alias_neo 5y ago
  How does the filesystem/storage part of that work? I use VSCodium daily and was considering self-hosting one of the web options.
  - jermaustin1 5y ago
    File system is local to the server, so you DEFINITELY want to run it with lower permissions I have a separate user that has no access to anything outside of its ~ directory. But it is great - it has access to ~, it has a built in terminal ctrl/cmd+` so I can actually operate completely from my VSCode in full screen. I was trying to hack my ChromiumOS to only launch that application and I would have a dedicated programing laptop that does NOTHING ELSE, which I've always thought would be cool.
    - alias_neo 5y ago
      Interesting. So the workflow here becomes that the server is the workstation with peoples homes etc. It will be interesting to figure out how to adjust my workflow. I deploy things in Kubernetes at home so I'd need to mount a remote filesystem which would become my user home. A Chromium book which loads straight into an IDE (only) would be a nice productivity tool!
- petecooper 5y ago
  >code-server Thank you - that looks interesting!

Firehawke 5y ago

I'd moved to VSCode because even on higher end hardware I could feel a substantial improvement compared to Atom. If you don't like the MS integrations, there's VSCodium.

jermaustin1 5y ago

I actually use code-server which is VSCode in the browser and hosted on your own server. It works on my ancient 2011 Dell latitude running ChromiumOS.

alias_neo 5y ago
How does the filesystem/storage part of that work? I use VSCodium daily and was considering self-hosting one of the web options.
- jermaustin1 5y ago
  File system is local to the server, so you DEFINITELY want to run it with lower permissions I have a separate user that has no access to anything outside of its ~ directory. But it is great - it has access to ~, it has a built in terminal ctrl/cmd+` so I can actually operate completely from my VSCode in full screen. I was trying to hack my ChromiumOS to only launch that application and I would have a dedicated programing laptop that does NOTHING ELSE, which I've always thought would be cool.
  - alias_neo 5y ago
    Interesting. So the workflow here becomes that the server is the workstation with peoples homes etc. It will be interesting to figure out how to adjust my workflow. I deploy things in Kubernetes at home so I'd need to mount a remote filesystem which would become my user home. A Chromium book which loads straight into an IDE (only) would be a nice productivity tool!
petecooper 5y ago
>code-server Thank you - that looks interesting!