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I would love for Atom to make some progress. The last time I tried it I really liked it, however it was way too slow to be useful to me. There was a perceivab

by Corrado 12y ago

I would love for Atom to make some progress. The last time I tried it I really liked it, however it was way too slow to be useful to me. There was a perceivable delay between when I typed a character and when it showed up on screen. This is a deal breaker for an IDE, IMHO. Then again, it is a really young editor and has a lot of room to grow and mature. So, here's to both Lime Text & Atom. May our text processing future be bright!

dmnd 12y ago
If you liked what you saw, you should try it again soon. There core editor components were rewritten in React, which lead to some noticeable performance gains: http://blog.atom.io/2014/07/02/moving-atom-to-react.html http://blog.atom.io/2014/07/02/moving-atom-to-react.html Beyond that, there are also more performance optimizations coming: https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/3154 https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/3154 The only two things I miss from Sublime are "find in project" and "go to symbol in project". Atom's implementations of those need some work. But everything else is as good or better than Sublime. And it's really easy to contribute and get pull requests merged. As far as I can tell from watching development, GitHub has at least 4 full-time engineers working on Atom.
- Demiurge 12y ago
  A dom object for every character probably makes it forever an uphill battle.
  - Dolimiter 12y ago
    Indeed. Atom will never be fast enough. Because of the "cool" underlying tech chosen.
    - davidy123 12y ago
      Given 640K is enough for anyone?
    - FichteFoll 12y ago
      To be honest, as a ST plugin developer, the underlying tech is very cool, except for JS/Coffee maybe. You can do pretty much any UI you can imagine using a website in some way and Atom allows you to do exactly that. You can modify the entire UI and this is what I was always missing in ST: The ability to modify the UI more extensivly. Sadly, this all leads to the very downside that everyone knows: Performance. Computers will eventually get to the point where Atom feels as fast as Sublime, because 1) the coding was improved and more significantly, and 2) CPUs will get good enough for Atom that a human can't see differences between Atom and ST's performance, despite ST being way faster still. It's always been like that.
dragonwriter 12y ago
Atom has some performance issues, but they are mostly on opening windows (this is compounded by the fact that Atom really likes to open new editor windows, e.g., for "Open File"). I don't notice the actual editor itself lagging.

by Corrado 12y ago

dmnd 12y ago

If you liked what you saw, you should try it again soon. There core editor components were rewritten in React, which lead to some noticeable performance gains: http://blog.atom.io/2014/07/02/moving-atom-to-react.html http://blog.atom.io/2014/07/02/moving-atom-to-react.html Beyond that, there are also more performance optimizations coming: https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/3154 https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/3154 The only two things I miss from Sublime are "find in project" and "go to symbol in project". Atom's implementations of those need some work. But everything else is as good or better than Sublime. And it's really easy to contribute and get pull requests merged. As far as I can tell from watching development, GitHub has at least 4 full-time engineers working on Atom.

Demiurge 12y ago
A dom object for every character probably makes it forever an uphill battle.
- Dolimiter 12y ago
  Indeed. Atom will never be fast enough. Because of the "cool" underlying tech chosen.
  - davidy123 12y ago
    Given 640K is enough for anyone?
  - FichteFoll 12y ago
    To be honest, as a ST plugin developer, the underlying tech is very cool, except for JS/Coffee maybe. You can do pretty much any UI you can imagine using a website in some way and Atom allows you to do exactly that. You can modify the entire UI and this is what I was always missing in ST: The ability to modify the UI more extensivly. Sadly, this all leads to the very downside that everyone knows: Performance. Computers will eventually get to the point where Atom feels as fast as Sublime, because 1) the coding was improved and more significantly, and 2) CPUs will get good enough for Atom that a human can't see differences between Atom and ST's performance, despite ST being way faster still. It's always been like that.

dragonwriter 12y ago

Atom has some performance issues, but they are mostly on opening windows (this is compounded by the fact that Atom really likes to open new editor windows, e.g., for "Open File"). I don't notice the actual editor itself lagging.