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It could be really great. I wonder if Jon Skinner knew, and said to himself "Welp, I might as well stop with Sublime". However, Sublime is (mostly) blazingly fa
by Narretz 13y ago
It could be really great. I wonder if Jon Skinner knew, and said to himself "Welp, I might as well stop with Sublime". However, Sublime is (mostly) blazingly fast. I don't expect this from a node based app, especially in Windows. And: I didn't see it under Features, but Atom definitely needs the command palette from Sublime baked into core. Only if it's core, plugin authors will set their hooks correctly from the beginning. Or even better, there might be a flexible command api that exposes each plugin's commands from the start and can be extended too. -> edit: the readme says it has Command Palette. Great! Also, since the term is identical with Sublime Text, I wonder if there's more to it than inspiration.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoYou do know that v8 is generally much much much faster than cpython, don't you?
- jordanthoms 13y agoAlthough, most of the Sublime core is in C/C++ as far as I know. And it's using native drawing, not webkit. Will be interesting to see how the performance compares.
- est 13y agosublime is using opengl to render every glype. Its speed will blow anything out of the water. Open 2MB text will be highlighted and colored in an instant. I wonder how could webkit achieve that.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoMy suspicion is sublime's speed has very little to do with its rendering method and a lot more to do with its I/O philosophy. Because, let's be honest, there is no way OpenGL can make loading a 50mb file into memory significantly faster than plain rendering.
- techdragon 13y agoand v8 has its ass handed to it vs the mozilla engine when running asm.js code... and there is pypy... and c extentions... and WHO CARES. It is fast enough for every job I've ever thrown at it... Do you only want there to be one programming language or something.?
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoYou're missing the point. The point is, for some reason a bunch of people have their expectations of Javascript performance set 10-15 years out of date.
- techdragon 13y agoI would pay for a $10 a month subscription/support contract to Sublime if it was Open Sourced... properly where the community can get involved in the development. This coming along scares me that an already tenuous situation around the future of Sublime Text may implode due to this new editor... and it isnt even open source. I'd rather build my own highly customised GUI+CLI macvim/emacs with both python and JS plugin backends than switch from one closed source editor to another just because its new and uses Node... I dont normally swear on hacker news ... but fuck that shit.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agobefore you jump to writing your own text editor from scratch, consider contributing to textadept. it's about half the text editor that sublimetext is, but it's lua based, already exists, and it is totally open source.